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Let's strike a blow against the most egregious corporate violators of our earth, the airline industry. Not only is every single seat on a flight responsible for the emission of one ton or more of carbon, but the commercial airline industry is subsidized by the US government to the tune of over 300 billion dollars a year, money which could instead be spent on reducing climate change.

Every dollar we spend on flying perpetuates their propaganda and the destruction of our planet. Commercial airline travel can not exist in a climate neutral world. Let's get off the corporate teat and start living our own lives.

Let's bring Big Air back to earth one seat at a time! 

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Green Party Releases Its Progressive Agenda Ahead of Hochul’s State of the State 

1/9/24 - The Green Party of New York said that Governor Hochul’s State of the State failed to lay out the bold action needed to deal with the multiple crisis facing New York. “The Governor remains more committed to protecting her campaign donors rather than making the investments needed to lift up the average New Yorkers, many of whom continue to face significant economic challenges following the COVID epidemic. Threats to democracy and to the well-being of the average New Yorkers remains a bipartisan effort,” said Peter LaVenia, co-chair of the Green Party.

The Greens released its progressive agenda for 2024, including ballot access reform to restore third party political rights, enacting Ranked Choice Voting and proportional representation, passing single-payer universal healthcare, and needed housing reforms including rent control, constructing a million units of publicly owned social housing, and good-cause eviction. The party argued for immediate action on climate change, and said that taxing the rich, including stopping the rebate of the Stock Transfer Tax, would help pay for needed reforms and social program expansion including reinvestment in impacted communities.

While the Party was encouraged that the Governor is proposing at least part of the NY Heat Act to curtail the promotion of and subsidies for fossil fuels, they criticized the Hochul administration for failing to meet the deadlines laid out in the state's new climate law on how it plans to meet its relatively weak goals to reduce global emissions. According to a recent report by Dr. James Hansen, the world will have already passed the target of 1.5 degrees C warming before NY even adopts its legally required plan on how to reduce emissions. “No wonder the UN has said that governments' slow climate action has opened up the Gates of Hell. And delaying Hochul’s weak carbon pricing plan just allows more fuel to be thrown into the fire,” noted Mark Dunlea of the EcoAction Committee of the U.S. Green Party.

Hochul did lay out a number of small but important climate steps, but fell far short of treating the situation as a climate emergency. Noticeably absent was any mention the Hochul intended to have NYPA launched a major expansion of publicly owned renewable energy as authorized in last year’s budget, nor was there any mention of public ownership of the transmission grid. While Hochul has indicated that $3 billion a year will be raised by how delayed cap-and-trade program, her speech fell far short on outlining a plan to begin investing the $10 to $20 billion of annual funding needed for a rapid transition to clean energy. She did announce support for making polluters to pay for the damages they have caused, such as enacting the Climate Superfund Act. The Party wished that her Solar for All was actually for all residents. It also supports far greater funding for environmental justice and Just Transition programs.

“The climate emergency is at a crucial point. We must solve the climate crisis so that our children have a chance for a decent future. The Green New Deal, which we first called for in Howie Hawkins’ 2010 gubernatorial race, will also meet the economic needs of our state’s residents. Single payer health care would reduce overall healthcare spending while ensuring that everyone’s health care needs, including COVID, are met,” added Dunlea. 

In addition to funding Green New Deal initiatives, the Greens call for an ecosocialist Green New Deal to move rapidly towards a renewable energy economy. The party said it strongly opposes Gov. Hochul’s cap-and-trade solution and that the CLCPA was an example of the Democrat’s tepid response to the worsening climate catastrophe. They called for major subsidies to enact rapid decarbonization of all buildings in the state including heat pumps, geothermal, and energy conservation. Greens called for a rapid expansion of funds for mass transit and that all new vehicles should be electric by 2030.  The Greens want a target date of zero emissions as soon as possible (2030), rather than the 30-year goal under the state law, which would still allow emissions to be 15% of 1990 levels. The Greens back an immediate halt to all new fossil fuel infrastructure, increased public ownership and democratic control of the energy system and a robust carbon tax in all sectors to make polluters pay for the damages they cause with fossil fuels.

The Greens said that New York State must become a gold standard for electoral reform. They mentioned that New York is an outlier in recent years, as most states have loosened ballot access laws rather than restricting them. Reform of ballot access laws would give New Yorkers more choices and help combat the widespread and continual corruption in state government from both the Democrats and Republicans.

“Democracy continues to be in a fragile condition in New York and nationwide, with both parties engaged in corruption and suppression of democratic rights. Cuomo used the cover of COVID to kill independent small parties in the state budget. We demand the so-called progressive Democrats with a Legislative supermajority who told us they opposed what was happening to have the courage to stand up and do what is right for New Yorkers. That includes raising the taxes on billionaires and other rich New Yorkers to close the massive budget deficit from COVID,” said  Gloria Mattera, state party co-chair.

“Governor Hochul’s attempt to legalize Accessory Dwelling Units and force municipalities to build housing hit a roadblock last year because it was dependent on private property interests doing so. As a party we agree that housing reform is absolutely necessary, but the only way to get there is through public investment and ownership of housing. We need a committed program of public social housing that provides a million units for working-class and middle-class families across the state. Additionally, we need to pass strong tenant protection like rent control, good-cause eviction, and legalizing Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) to shift away from the bankrupt suburban, single-family home model,” added Mattera.

The Greens have also been long-term proponents of stopping the multi-billion dollar annual rebate of the Stock Transfer Tax. “It is long past time we make the rich pay their fair share of taxes, instead of making New York the long-time leader in economic inequality. We won’t solve the climate crisis or systemic racism or a host of other social problems until we embrace ecosocialism, putting the needs of average people and the planet ahead of the profits and well-being of a few,” said Peter LaVenia, state party co-chair.

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Planting millions of trees can solve climate change?

Earth is expressing climate change on a scale and pace never seen before. since our species has been on this planet and were causing it by pumping more heat trapping CO2 into the atmosphere than earth natural system can take out Solving a problem as massive as climate change is gonna take tone of solutions. But may be the trees might be the big part of our answer Past 370 million years or so they've been the one of the major ways earth sucks out excess carbon out of the atmosphere and stores it away. This natural technology captures way better and cheaper than any other human technology we've come up with so far. But can trees actually big enough difference in cleaning up our mess. So many Indian states are planting millions of trees to prevent climate change. Recently Uttar Pradesh planted 250 million trees in a green campaign which is a really good step to take .Planting a million trees has a lot of advantages but scientists say it's not gonna solve climate change on its own. We also have to stop emitting so many greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Earth forests absorb on average 16 million metric ton of co2 annually. But human activities can turn forests into sources of carbon thanks to deforestation and wildfire, forests also emit 8.1 billion tons of gas back into the atmosphere. That leves net amount of 7.6 billion tons of co2 absorbed annually. Considering that the world emitted 36 billion tons of CO2 in 2019. Instead of planting more trees we have to protect the trees which we already have. Trees are basically big carbon machines which sucks carbon out of the atmosphere and turn into more trees. Cutting those trees puts carbon back into the atmosphere. Most deforestation happens in tropical regions.tropical regions act as air conditioning for the planet. They pull moisture out of the ground, release water into air and create rain and weather patterns across the globe. Cutting those trees can raise nearby temperature by as 3°C so keeping the trees we have is essential if we want to keep climate change from getting worse. Even if we saved every tree that already exists and if we planted trees in every spot on earth we still wouldn't absorb all the climate change greenhouse gasses which we emit every year. No matter what climate solution we talk about, whether it's electric cars or something, none of it will work unless we stop putting so much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. It's really that simple solving climate change isn't just about what we do, it's about what we stop doing

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