These people are scum.
https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/markey_letter_to_treasury_re_climate_sanctions.pdf
Combined with additional climate diplomacy with key countries like China, financial sanctions would ensure that addressing the climate crisis remains at the center of U.S. foreign and national security strategy.
Signed by:
Edward J. Markey
Veronica Escobar
Bernard Sanders
Elizabeth Warren
Literally only the four of them. This wasn’t even just some “sign on to whatever” thing. They specifically used their “progressive” cred to attack China and promote the use of economic sanctions.
While it is promising that the PRC announced it will stop building coal-fired projects in other countries, the PRC is the largest emitter of global carbon emissions, and the United States must work to ensure that its development finance institutions do not undermine global de- carbonization efforts
wtf wtf wtf
textbook social imperialism.
“the PRC is the largest emitter of global carbon emissions”*
*if you ignore the united states military (we do)
they aren’t even taking into account
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per capita emissions (per capita, USA and Saudis are by far the worst)
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the fact that China manufactures a huge percentage of America’s consumer goods
