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THE NEW GREEN DEAL

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the lightning rod of conservative talk shows after introducing a Green New Deal resolution to Congress. The concept is not new. Thomas Freidman coined the idea of a Green New Deal in his book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded in 2007 and British economist Richard Murphy founded the Green New Deal Group the same year. Yet, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s resolution has been met with overwhelming skepticism and mockery from the right.

The Green New Deal that Ocasio-Cortez has submitted to Congress can be download on this link and recommends action in three basic areas:

  1. The plan must decarbonize the economy. The young people who will have to live with the effects of climate change want a plan that begins with what is necessary rather than what is deemed politically possible.
  2. The plan must include a jobs guarantee by the federal government and large-scale public investments. Again, the GND is not just climate policy. It’s about transforming the economy, lifting the up the poor and middle class, and creating a more muscular, active public sector.
  3. The plan must make sure it includes protections for those hardest hit by historical discrimination and those set to suffer most from the effects of climate change — in Ocasio-Cortez’s document, “low-income communities, communities of color, indigenous communities, [and] the front-line communities most affected by climate change, pollution, and other environmental harm.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admits the plan is ambitious as it includes a 10-year commitment to convert “100 percent of the power demand in the United States” to “clean, renewable and zero-emission energy sources,” to upgrade “all existing buildings” to meet energy efficiency requirements, and to expand high-speed rail so broadly that most air travel would be rendered obsolete. “We do not have a choice,” says Ocasio-Cortez. “We have to get to one hundred percent renewable energy in ten years. There is no other option.“

The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication sent out a survey to 966 registered voters between Nov. 28 and Dec. 11, 2018, and 81% of voters support a Green New Deal. “Given that most Americans have strong support for the components and ideas of the Green New Deal, it becomes a communication strategy problem,” says Abel Gustafson, who co-authored the survey findings. “From here, it’s about how you can pitch it so you can maintain that bipartisan support throughout the rest of the process.“

81% OF VOTERS SUPPORT A GREEN NEW DEAL

Addressing the issue of climate change is being championed by a fifteen year old Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg who addressed delegates at the UN sponsored COP24.

click on the video below to view Greta Thunberg’s speech

“Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago. We have not come here to beg the world leaders to care for our future. They have ignored us in the past and they will ignore us again. We have come here to let them know that change is coming whether they like it or not.“

WE NEED TO LISTEN AND LEARN FROM OUR YOUTH.

TCK Consultant

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While working at the United Nations in NYC, I met Matthew Carpenter, who like my own children, grew up a Third Culture Kid. Matt’s parents are Asia specialists. His father, Bruce Carpenter, is an expert on Chinese poetry and art history. His mother, Juliet Winters Carpenter, is an internationally recognized literary translator. Matt was their first child and named in a nod to Matthew Perry and Edwin Reischauer, two men who made signal contributions to Japanese-American relations.

I went to university in Japan in the ’70s and my wife is Japanese. I have a lot of Japanese friends and know a lot of Americans that have lived in Japan. By far, Matt is the most bicultural and bilingual speaker of Japanese I have ever met. I encourage you to check out his BLOG/Website @ https://www.biculturalconsultant.com

OR LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew2/

Matt assists Japanese organizations that wish to enter or expand into Western markets. He also works as a liaison between Japanese and Western organizations. Matt’s passion is to build a business that bridges Western and Japanese cultures and worldviews to enable organizational success.

カーペンター氏は欧米市場で活動する、もしくは活動したい日系企業をアシストしています。また、日系企業と欧米企業の間でリエゾンとしても働いています。

Matt was born in Nara, Japan to American parents. He lived in Japan for a total of 21 years and can function as a native in both the United States and Japan. Currently lives in New York City. Professional accomplishments include:

  • Multiple front-page scoops for The Yomiuri Shimbun, including one based on the confidential report on North Korea.
  • Top 20 in sales at Wells Fargo Bank out of 850 fellow employees. Second in the district in customer satisfaction surveys.
  • Ranked top interpreter third quarter and November 2016 at CyraCom out of 1700 interpreters. Received several client recognitions, including three from Walt Disney Inc.
  • Assisted the translation of Columbia University professor emeritus Gerald Curtis’s book on Japanese politics.

マシュー・カーペンター氏は奈良県奈良市生まれのアメリカ人。日本での滞在期間は２１年。現在ニューヨーク市在住。

  • 読売新聞の為トップ記事を何枚か入手、安保理北朝鮮制裁委員会の極秘レポートを含め。
  • ウェルズ・ファーゴ銀行営業担当部員８５０人の内、トップ２０入りする実績を収める。カスタマーサービスのアンケートで、地区２位の結果。
  • シリコムでウォルト・ディズニー社など、取引先各社表彰多数、２０１６年第３四半期と１１月社内所属通訳者１７００人の内ランキング１位になる。
  • コロンビア大学名誉教授ジェラルド・カーティス著作『政治と秋刀魚』の英語翻訳のアシスタントを務める。