Investing in our public infrastructure, from sidewalks to bridges to public transportation to public housing to public parks to mitigating the climate crisis, benefits all of us. But across America, billionaires & the politicians they pay for prefer tax cuts for the 1%. #RI
We can build things to make our lives better if the wealthiest 1% pay their fair share. We still rely on what FDR and the New Deal Democrats built. It's time for a #GreenNewDeal for the U.S. & for #RI. #StrongerTogether
In which Don Carlson, the wealthiest candidate running for the open congressional seat in #RI refers to his childhood home as a “tenement”, which while dictionary definition true, in the US strongly implies deep poverty and overcrowding.
That “tenement” is a regular, perfectly nice two-family house on 7th Street in Providence’s wealthy East Side where if it went condo each unit would be $$$.
Christiana Figueres, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2009-2016, who helped negotiate the Paris Agreement, finally realizes what all veteran energy transitionistas eventually realize: That it's foolish to think FF companies will ever be good partners in the #energytransition.
The impudence of the successors to the people who caused this #ClimateCatastrophe with an average global temperature not seen in 120,000 years is outrageous.