Why U.S. cities need to learn from Copenhagen?fast
By 2025, the Danish capital will be the first city to eliminate fossil fuels. American cities need to do the same The Green New Deal, a proposal for the country to wean itself off fossil fuels within a decade, was shot down in the U.S. Senate yesterday after a series of truly bizarre arguments. But the most preposterous one came from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said it just wouldn?t work for every U.S. city.
?The proposal addresses the small matter of eliminating the use of all fossil fuels nationwide in a 10-year time frame,? McConnell told reporters on Tuesday. ?This might sound like a neat idea in places like San Francisco or New York, the places that the Democratic Party seems totally focused on these days. But communities practically everywhere else would be absolutely crushed.? Despite widespread support from constituents, the Green New Deal has been dubbed impossible by Congressional Republicans for similar reasons, and even some Democrats won?t back the plan. Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper cast his own doubt upon the proposal in an op-ed this week. ?We do not yet have the technology needed to reach ?net-zero greenhouse gas emissions? in 10 years,? he wrote.
But we do actually have the technology. And we do know that it is possible for U.S. cities, large and small, to achieve this goal, because we have a very good model to learn from: Copenhagen.
Within ten years?actually, the goal is 2025, so six?the Danish capital is on tr...
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