AOC silent on whether she will amend doomsday climate prediction as deadline looms

As top setting activists like Bill Gates shift their focus away from environmental activism Squad Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N Y is keeping silent on whether she still stands by her ten-year deadline for action laid out in the Green New Deal Back when Ocasio-Cortez first introduced the Green New Deal in the House of Representatives in she framed state change as an existential threat that required a ten-year intensity of sweeping changes in U S power protocol The Green New Deal was introduced as a -year national mobilization plan to combat weather change and create jobs In interviews explaining the proposal Ocasio-Cortez cited a UN Intergovernmental Panel on Environment Change which predicted the planet will reach the crucial threshold of degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels by as early as This she reported precipitated the menace of extreme drought wildfires floods and food shortages for hundreds of millions of people The proposal called for a rapid shift to renewable capacity and major infrastructure changes reducing fossil fuel usage including coal oil and natural gas ENVIRONMENT DEADLINES COLLIDE WITH POLITICS AS DEM-LED STATES CHASE BIG OIL IN COURT BUT SPARE LOCAL REFINERSFacing criticism that the deal was economically unfeasible and even harmful Ocasio-Cortez retorted that millennials and people you know Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we re like The world is gonna end in years if we don t address environment change And your biggest issue is How are we going to pay for it Like this is our World War II Six years later Ocasio-Cortez has become one of the most of widely recognized Democratic leaders and is even a rumored frontrunner for president in Though her political fortunes have risen Ocasio-Cortez did not respond to Fox News Digital s inquiry on whether she still believes the world is nearing its end Indeed according to the World Meteorological Organization the earth s average temperature already rose by degrees in the warmest year ever recorded globally without any apocalyptic outcomes as of yet Ocasio-Cortez has continued to advocate for climate-focused policies On her official website she touts her surroundings advocacy taking partial credit for the federal administration making its biggest ever stake in surroundings change - billion to fight weather change million green jobs and net zero carbon emissions by DEMS ACCUSE EPA OF TRYING TO KILL GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING INITIATIVE THAT AIDS CAP-AND-TRADE Among those who have shifted their previous emphasis on setting change activism is long-time environmental philanthropist and billionaire Bill Gates In an essay published in October Gates who has long pushed for policies to limit the rise in temperatures commented guidance should be diverted to improve life in warming parts of the world and improving the lives of people there Weather change complaint and poverty are all major problems Gates wrote We should deal with them in proportion to the suffering they cause He noted that the global temperature doesn t give insight into the quality of people s lives Although context change will have serious consequences particularly for people in the poorest countries it will not lead to humanity s demise the Microsoft co-founder wrote This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change improving lives Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world s poorest countries AOC SANDERS RAKE IN MILLIONS AS FAR-LEFT CEMENTS GRIP ON DEMOCRAT PARTYGates hasn't abandoned the fight against atmosphere change He noted that every tenth of a degree of warming matters Every tenth of a degree of heating that we prevent is hugely beneficial because a stable conditions makes it easier to improve people s lives he wrote Although conditions change will hurt poor people more than anyone else for the vast majority of them it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare he added In latest years Gates has focused on the goals of his Gates Foundation which has donated billions of dollars to fund strength care teaching and evolution initiatives worldwide