A Cautionary Green New Deal Tale
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🗓️ 15 February 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The Green New Deal brought attention back to the idea of high-speed rail in America. This week California squandered it. What lessons should Americans be taking from the failed high-speed rail project in California?
Guest: Henry Grabar, staff writer at Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so Green New Deal. |
| 0:08.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.8 | You just gave me a look like, yes. |
| 0:13.6 | How much did you watch the reaction to it from politicians? |
| 0:17.4 | Pretty closely. |
| 0:19.0 | Henry Grabar is a writer here at Slate. |
| 0:21.6 | I don't know if you recall, but last week there was a complicated rollout. |
| 0:27.6 | Here the way Henry says, complicated? Like, here we go again. |
| 0:31.6 | Henry describes it as a pretty straightforward resolution. |
| 0:35.6 | You know, a little four-page proposal with a lot of very vague provisions. |
| 0:40.0 | But then there was this press release. |
| 0:42.6 | That came from Ocasio-Cortez's office styled as an FAQ and that they later said was |
| 0:49.5 | released by mistake. |
| 0:51.3 | And that document is where all the crazy stuff that became GOP memes in the subsequent |
| 0:58.5 | week came from. |
| 1:02.9 | This press release, it talked about reducing greenhouse gas emissions by getting rid of farting |
| 1:08.0 | cows. It also talks about getting rid of airplanes. |
| 1:11.0 | How many miles I have on Delta, Gillian? |
| 1:13.7 | It's gold going to go to waste. |
| 1:15.4 | What am I going to use them for? |
| 1:16.6 | There are no planes. |
| 1:17.7 | And it wasn't just Fox News that latched on to these ideas. |
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