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Green Party => A. Climate Change => Platform - Section III. Ecological Sustainability => A5. Clean, Green Energy and Jobs => Topic started by: AnthonyAú on Mar 19, 2024, 06:22 PM
Platform - Green Party US Section III. Ecological Sustainability A. Climate Change A5. Clean, Green Energy and Jobs - Create an inclusive program to train workers for the new, clean energy economy. Focusing on both the environment and social justice, prioritize the creation of green jobs in communities of color and low-income communities.
- Transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 using wind, solar, ocean, small-scale hydro, and geothermal power.
- End the use of nuclear power.
Nuclear energy is massively polluting, dangerous, financially risky, expensive and slow to implement.
Our money is better spent on wind, solar, geothermal, conservation and small-scale hydroelectric.
- Stop "dirty clean energy."
Many of the "solutions" offered in climate legislation aren't real solutions.
Biomass incineration (trees, crops, construction debris and certain types of waste), landfill gas and many types of biofuels will dump massive quantities of toxic pollutants into the air and water, and some of these energy sources produce more greenhouse gas emissions than coal.
Natural gas is primarily methane, which is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.
Consequently, when pipeline leakage is considered, the clean-burning characteristics of natural gas can be lost, resulting in a fuel with climate impacts as bad as coal.
Biomass and biofuels will also increase deforestation, contributing to more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.