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Andrew Yang on Climate Change: Where the Candidate Stands
发布日期:2024-12-23 15:52:13
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“This is going to be a tough truth, but we are too late. We are 10 years too late.”  
—Andrew Yang, July 2019

Been There

“Climate change has dried up our forests to the point that they are giant tinderboxes,” entrepreneur-turned-presidential candidate Andrew Yang wrote in November 2018, amid the historic wildfires that ravaged California.

He said he saw the fires as a metaphor for much of what is ailing American society. “We avoid spending what we shouldbut end up paying for it in the end, often tragically,” he wrote.

Done That

As founder of the New York-based nonprofit Venture for America, Yang helped put talented young people on a pathway to entrepreneurship careers in areas where they could help improve society, including clean energy.

Getting Specific

Our Take

Yang’s plan is not as fatalistic as he seemed to suggest when he lamented that we are a decade “too late” in addressing the climate crisis. He wouldn’t just adapt to a warmer world, but would aggressively seek to lower carbon emissions through a cap-and-dividend proposal that incorporates the latest thinking of mainstream economists. However, those same economists would blanch at the government intervention that Yang embraces, such as forcing automakers to achieve zero emissions by 2030. Sanders is arguably just as aggressive, but his goal has more wiggle room, coming from someone who has spent some time in the Senate. Yang, who has never held public office, matter-of-factly declares we’ll have to empty our coasts, end offshore drilling and possibly launch reflectors into space. Voters will have to decide whether that makes Yang a fresh thinker or one who is not adequately prepared for the challenges ahead.

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