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Biden’s Climate Plan: It’s Too Late for Gradualism
Hawkins, Howie http://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/28/bidens-climate-plan-its-too-late-for-gradualism/
Publisher: CounterPunch
Date Written: 24/04/2021
Year Published: 2021
Resource Type: Article
The climate emergency demands a radical and rapid decarbonization of the economy with numerical goals and timetables to transform all productive sectors, not only power production (27% of carbon emissions), but also transportation (28%), manufacturing (22%), buildings (12%), and agriculture (10%). That emergency transformation can only be met by an ecosocialist approach using public enterprise and planning. Instead, Biden's plan emphasizes corporate welfare: subsidies and tax incentives for clean energy that will take uncertain effect at a leisurely pace in the markets. Moreover, it does nothing to stop more oil and gas fracking and pipelines for more gas-fired power plants, or to shut down coal-fired power plants. Without out directly saying so, it is a plan to burn fossil fuels for decades to come.
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