Ocasio-Cortez says we need World War II-scale action on climate. Here’s what that looks like

The Green New Deal resolution introduced last week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) states that fighting climate change requires “a new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II.”

Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Ed
Markey (right D-MA) announce the Green new deal
legislation outside the U.S. Capitol early in February.

The world’s leading climate scientists agree. In 2015, for instance, they called for a sweeping mobilization — “a radical transition (deep decarbonization now and going forward),” as they described it — to avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change. And last October, the world’s nations unanimously agreed with our top scientists that preserving a livable climate requires “system changes” across the economy that “are unprecedented in terms of scale.”

Read the ThinkProgress story by Joe Romm - “Ocasio-Cortez says we need World War II-scale action on climate. Here’s what that looks like.”