Hearing the Falconer #27 ~ 4-April-2019 ~ The Green New Deal: Part 4

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world....
from The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats, 1919

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface.
The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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4-April-2019: The Green New Deal, Part 4
House Resolution 109: The Green New Deal
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From news reports I have gotten the impression the Green New Deal is too extreme. Let's take a look at it and find out for ourselves.

House Resolution 109 has the title “Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.”

This resolution starts with 7 “Whereas's” and then moves into 4 “Resolved's.” Recently we looked at the third "whereas," now today let's look at the fourth and fifth “whereas's.”

The fourth "whereas" points out that the problems related to climate change will be especially harmful to groups called "frontline and vulnerable communities." These groups include communities of color, low-income workers, and people with disabilities, among others. The resolution does not go into detail about how climate change will disportionately effect vulnerable communities, but we can look for that evidence elsewhere.

The fifth "whereas" tells us that climate change poses a direct threat to US national security. Again, there is not a let of detail in this section but it does mention economic, environmental, and social problems in other countries that are caused or exacerbated by climate change that could effect the United States in ways that could have an impact on our national security.

Next time we will look at the sixth "whereas."

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The "Hearing the Falconer" Library

Books for Independent Thinkers

Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today

The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It

Unapologetically Moderate: My Search for the Rational Center in American Politics

The Deliberate Moderate: Influencing From the Middle

Eisenhower: The White House Years

The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison

Lincoln

Reflections of a Radical Moderate

Washington: A Life

The Reluctant Republican: My Fight for the Moderate Majority

Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Theodore Roosevelt: A Life

The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides

Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates