Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - They know that we can win.

 

  

It goes without saying that there's a great deal of dark money involved in the fight against climate change right now. That dark money is intended for us to not act in this situation. 

We have lobbyists from companies like Exxon Mobil who are bragging about their role in shaping our federal legislation, curtailing our ambitions, and fighting against key provisions to draw down our carbon emissions. 

So many of the people that are in charge of blocking action on climate will not see the world that they’re leaving to generations to come. 

We have a moral responsibility to leave this world better than we found it. This is not about theory anymore, this is not about challenging the science anymore. 

In New York City just this week, people woke up having a harder time breathing and a harder time seeing on the horizon because of the smoke from the Bootleg Fires out in Oregon coming out to our city. 

Wildfires will come and impact all of us. 

Floods and waters will come to impact all of us. 

But they will not impact all of us equally. The most vulnerable communities will be left behind, but we can stop it. 

It doesn’t have to be this way. Not only can we stop it, and not only can we draw down our emissions, but we can create millions of jobs doing so – millions of good, union jobs. 

We can create a Civilian Climate Corps. 

We can transition to renewable energy. 

We can build infrastructure that all people can enjoy that’s not just attuned to the wealthy. 

We can restore our lands. 

We can live in harmony with an economy where we can care for one another instead of extracting off of each other. 

We can build this world, and this world is close. So close. And that is why we see dark money mobilizing the way it is right now. Because they know that we can win.

Hopefully in this reconciliation package that we’re debating, we will continue to win. But this fight does not stop now. It does not stop with this infrastructure package. It will not stop throughout the course of our lives. 

So we're going to keep fighting. 

Thanks for being a part of this,

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez