This is what the New York subway looked like on Thursday night. Folks wading through murky water and toxic waste, just so they can get to where they need to go.
I don’t know how it can be made any clearer. The impacts of climate change are already here. It is in our oceans, it’s in our cities, and it is impacting communities like mine — neighborhoods in the Bronx, Yonkers, Mount Vernon and more — communities that have been neglected for decades by design.
The only way we avert climate disaster is by passing robust policies that meet the moment right now. Not only do we need a Green New Deal, we also need an infrastructure package that makes significant investments to prepare for and mitigate future emergency weather events. What we don’t need is a Republican-negotiated, bipartisan infrastructure package that won’t address the catastrophic impacts of climate change.
Back in November, the American people went to the ballot box thinking of unpaid bills, underpaid labor, and underinvestment in their families — all which have enriched big business and corporations, especially in the past year.
The American people cast their votes for Democrats down-ballot to solve those problems — not to constantly concede to Republicans, many of whom are hell-bent on stopping our agenda and running out the clock to 2022. No amount of compromise or bipartisanship can solve that problem.
