Green New Deal

The climate crisis, which threatens Southern Maryland with rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and severe economic disruption, is the context for all the social and economic challenges we face in the coming decades. Recent research suggests we are currently on track for the worst case climate scenarios. We are currently projected to reach 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming by 2030 — a decade ahead of what the 2018 U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report predicted — and 2 degrees Celsius before 2050, way ahead of the Paris Agreement’s goal of averting 2 degree rise by 2100. 

This challenge demands the kind of society-wide mobilization unseen in American history since World War II. Given the United States' historic and ongoing role as the largest greenhouse gas emitter, we have a special obligation to the Global South and the rest of the planet to lead an unprecedented transformation toward a decarbonized global economy. We can win a Green New Deal that decarbonizes the US economy by 2030, repairs the generational harms of racism, and guarantees economic security for all.

 
GND

Mckayla supports:

  • Establishing a National Reconstruction Council responsible for the country’s economic development strategy with a mandate for decarbonization and reparations.

  • Guaranteeing a just transition to workers in extractive sectors (such as oil, gas, shale, and industrial agriculture) by nationalizing dominant actors and incorporating their quick wind down into the national strategy.

  • Investing in a 100 percent renewable energy sector that is democratically controlled through the expansion of federal Power Marketing Administration (PMAs). These PMAs would generate renewable power for all 50 states, distributed by publicly and cooperatively owned electric utilities. 

  • Guaranteeing an Economic Bill of Rights, including the legal rights to a job, housing, food, water, and public transportation to lay the foundation for a sustainable care economy.

  • Ending all legal, financial, and technical support for fossil fuel infrastructure, including subsidies, permits, tax breaks, and actions through multilateral organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, and the Export-Import Bank.