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.
Try to produce it in your own countries and see your carbon emissions rise!
Honestly, the one hope I have for the future is that China decarbonizes the economy that all the western nations manufacturer out of.
God forbid Americans bring their industry home under current leadership. We’ll be draining mercury into our aquafiers and stuffing our vacant skyscrapers with pig shit before the turn of the next decade.
