It's been a while since I looked into it, but I don't think your take is necessarily wrong. The reality is that the state of climate change-based action by the government is so paltry that spending a single dollar on progress is a breath of fresh air. The things sound good and are needed - infrastructure spending, enforcement mechanisms, punishing fossil fuel companies, etc. But you're right - it's not nearly as ambitious as we need.
I think the bigger question when it comes to his climate plan is: How the fuck does he plan on implementing it? Like, through what procedure? Even if the dems win the senate they won't have a 60 vote majority, so how do they plan to pass $2 trillion of legislation?
But then, too, it all feels performative for the left. All the people congratulating the Biden campaign for their bold innovative plans are the same people who spent months tone policing the left and sarcastically asking "hOw aRe YoU gOnNa PaY fOr It". Do you genuinely think these people would seriously stand up and fight for climate legislation (including skirting precious norms and procedure) after showing their hand on the GND and Bernie's proposals? I have absolutely zero faith in them.
I would love if we have actual climate legislation, but even Biden's watered down plan is too little, too late, and still too impossible to push through in any possible political scenario.
I've heard his climate plan, while not as ambitious as we probably need, is still a pretty big step forward. Any sources on refuting that?
It's been a while since I looked into it, but I don't think your take is necessarily wrong. The reality is that the state of climate change-based action by the government is so paltry that spending a single dollar on progress is a breath of fresh air. The things sound good and are needed - infrastructure spending, enforcement mechanisms, punishing fossil fuel companies, etc. But you're right - it's not nearly as ambitious as we need.
I think the bigger question when it comes to his climate plan is: How the fuck does he plan on implementing it? Like, through what procedure? Even if the dems win the senate they won't have a 60 vote majority, so how do they plan to pass $2 trillion of legislation?
But then, too, it all feels performative for the left. All the people congratulating the Biden campaign for their bold innovative plans are the same people who spent months tone policing the left and sarcastically asking "hOw aRe YoU gOnNa PaY fOr It". Do you genuinely think these people would seriously stand up and fight for climate legislation (including skirting precious norms and procedure) after showing their hand on the GND and Bernie's proposals? I have absolutely zero faith in them.
I would love if we have actual climate legislation, but even Biden's watered down plan is too little, too late, and still too impossible to push through in any possible political scenario.