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Another project replaces an existing 14-foot section of fencing with a taller barrier that is supposed to be more effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11725642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11725642 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18357252388304-3b6af53db2d0ca1061410928e000223507f70b05-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Border wall prototypes stand in San Diego near the Mexico U.S. border, seen from Tijuana. A federal court ruled Monday that the Department of Homeland Security had the authority to waive environmental regulations in constructing the prototypes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Border wall prototypes stand in San Diego near the Mexico-U.S. border, seen from Tijuana. 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I think the problem is this legislation is so broad that it can fold in what is frankly a racist campaign slogan that turned into some presidential act to build a wall along our southern border without any justification.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Attorney General's Office said it was \"disappointed with the ruling, but pleased that the court recognized the Trump administration does not have unlimited power and that the administration's authority to build a barrier along our border is subject to judicial review,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Trump-s-border-wall-Fed-court-rejects-some-of-13608356.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time DHS has waived environmental laws in order to build barriers and roads at the border. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://su.org/\">Singularity University\u003c/a> isn’t really about the\u003ca href=\"https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-is-the-singularity-and-will-you-live-to-see-it-5534848\"> singularity\u003c/a>—that point in the future where new technology will change the world so drastically that it’s basically incomprehensible to people alive today. Imagine a society where humans and robots have merged into such a blissfully dystopic union that iPhone Xs are used only by the Amish to print 3D barns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor is Singularity University really a university, at least not in the traditional sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picture instead a very exclusive TED Talk for vice presidents of Fortune 500 companies and assorted government leaders, who pay nearly $15,000 to spend a week on a NASA research campus in Mountain View studying topics such as the rise of artificial intelligence and digital biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you may recognize one of the alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/122143652\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Singularity University multiple times over the past decade (a spokesman for Neseom says he was always an invited guide and neither he nor the state ever paid tuition). Among his study endeavors: a seminar on 3D printing in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Newsom, for the most part, drank the Tang, recalls Pascal Finette, Singularity’s Chair of Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To his credit, I think he spends a good amount of time to really educate himself on the future and to really understand what the future looks like,” said Finette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Newsom delivers his first State of the State speech from the Capitol. It comes just a few weeks after unveiling a $200 billion budget proposal that serves as the financial roadmap to the state he envisions. Newsom aims to do a lot of forward-looking things in the next 12 months: build homeless shelters, acquire firefighting airplanes, even (gasp) let drivers pay with credit cards at the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Odds are, Newsom’s speech will focus largely on his ambitious plans to restore the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/BudgetSummary/GovernorsMessage.pdf\">California Dream\u003c/a>. But how does all that money prepare California for that dream — not just next year, but five, 15, 30 years from now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following are excerpts from our discussions with three experts about the issues likely to confront California at those various benchmarks on the horizon. We asked each expert what kept him up at night when contemplating that year—and how Newsom’s budget does or does not address those concerns. Interviews are edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-861003104-e1524180315497.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11663478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-861003104-e1524180315497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk by a Wells Fargo bank branch on Oct. 13, 2017, in New York City. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Year: 2024\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Issue: Recession\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Expert: Patrick Murphy, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How worried should we be that California will confront a recession in the near future?\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not a betting person, but I would bet we’ll see [one]. What will cause it? How big? How long? I don’t have that. We’ve been in a recovery\u003ca href=\"http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-anderson-forecast-economic-slowdown-on-horizon\"> for a long time\u003c/a>, we’re in uncharted territory, and it would be quite surprising if there wasn’t a slowdown in the economy at some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What can the state do to gird itself against an economic downturn?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s two schools of thought. One would be to make sure your revenues are stable and predictable in the long term, so you don’t have the highs too high and the lows too low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3703\">isn’t the course we’ve taken\u003c/a>. The course we’ve taken now is we have a volatile revenue stream, but we try to hedge our bets by socking away savings. It’s the person that doesn’t work for a salary or works piecework or consulting and has a lumpy paycheck.You have to have money in reserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So what is Newsom doing in this budget for saving while the money is pouring in?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, he’s continuing something that Gov. Jerry Brown had done, which is to focus on \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-state-budget/\">setting money \u003c/a>aside. Part of that is constitutionally required, but what’s interesting is we’re kind of going over and above that. I’ll spare the weeds, but we’re saving more than we have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other piece is the spending that’s being done. A big chunk of it is being put under the banner of \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916#The_Big_Picture\">one-time spending\u003c/a>. And what that really means is that you’re not commiting someone’s job or salary in the long term, where after year one you’re not committing to year two or year three or four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What about pensions?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s continuing to pay down some of those unfunded retirement liabilities — payments to retirement plans for state and local employees. That’s kind of like putting money in your 401k. You do it today; your benefits multiply over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So, grading from A to F, how does this budget fare in preparing us for a recession?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A:\u003c/b> I hate to give grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You were a professor.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A: \u003c/b>That was the worst part of the job. What I will say is that it’s showing a lot of foresight in how to invest a\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/newsom-california-spend-budget-surplus/\"> $20 billion windfall\u003c/a>. I wish I was doing this at home — I wish I was paying down my mortgage faster. This is kind of the equivalent of trying to pay down your mortgage faster knowing you’re going to benefit from it down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So … B+?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>B+, yeah. I was a tough grader though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/coast-file-20171002-3782-fi0bx9-e1507740219838.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11622404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/coast-file-20171002-3782-fi0bx9-e1507740219838.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Arch Bay, Laguna Beach \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Three_Arch_Bay_Photo_Taken_by_pilot_D_Ramey_Logan.jpg\">Don Ramey Logan\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\">CC BY\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Year: 2040\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Issue: Sea Level Rise\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Expert: Will Travis, sea level rise adaptation consultant\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>We’re standing right outside the Facebook Campus in Menlo Park, which sits right at sea level on the south edge of San Francisco Bay. What is this going to look like 20 years from now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some unknown point in the future,\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/22/silicon-valley-sea-level-rise-google-facebook-flood-risk\">this area will likely be fully inundated\u003c/a> by the sea. I say at some unknown point because we know \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/rising-seas-climate-change-what-you-need-to-know/\">sea level is rising\u003c/a>, and we know it will rise at an accelerated rate, but we just don’t know how fast that will happen. It depends on how effective we as a species are at reducing the emissions and carbon dioxide we put into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>It will happen, though? It’s just a question of when?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question of when. This area will flood for a day or two, and that will happen more and more frequently. Eventually the new reality will be what is now an extreme event that occurs every 10, 15, 20 years will occur every 10,15 or 20 days and then eventually all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>California’s coastline has almost always been considered an economic asset. But is that going to be the case decades from now?\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, it’s inevitable that vast parts of the coastline, which is now the most expensive real estate in the world,\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-response-rising-seas/\">will be written off\u003c/a> and have to be abandoned. That may be a more difficult crisis to deal with than the actual physical problems, because of the economic impact of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So what can the state actively do to protect against sea level rise?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the state can actively do is begin to plan for this inevitable future now. And that means sorting out what areas we can protect, how we can protect them, are we going to try to use wetlands, do we want to build higher levees? Or are there areas where we decide to pull back, perhaps prohibit new development and remove existing or older development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What did you make of Newsom’s budget?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the money in the budget to deal with climate change is really addressing mitigation, which is reducing greenhouse gases to slow the impact of climate change. The other side is adaptation, which is to acknowledge no matter how effective we are at reducing greenhouse gases, we are still going to have sea level rise in the future. Relatively speaking, there’s not much money in the governor’s budget for [adaptation] right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How would you grade his first budget on planning for a future with sea level rise?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be difficult to grade somebody like the governor who has been in office now for a [month] on a long-term issue like this. It’s like giving him a grade on a final exam when he just walked in the door to class for the first time. But I have worked with Newsom when he was mayor of San Francisco, and he could turn around and teach the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If Facebook goes underwater, is that necessarily a bad thing?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Prolonged Pause)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11148548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Robot4-1-e1477610971173.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11148548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Robot4-1-e1477610971173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma, Amelia and Piper, now greeting travelers in San Jose, are the first robots to be deployed at a U.S. airport. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mineta San Jose International)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Year: 2050\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Issue: Robots and Automation\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Expert: Johannes Moenius, professor of global business at University of Redlands\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Is there a date in the future that’s a tipping point for automation?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, we don’t really know dates. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Singularity University multiple times over the past decade (a spokesman for Neseom says he was always an invited guide and neither he nor the state ever paid tuition). Among his study endeavors: a seminar on 3D printing in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Newsom, for the most part, drank the Tang, recalls Pascal Finette, Singularity’s Chair of Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To his credit, I think he spends a good amount of time to really educate himself on the future and to really understand what the future looks like,” said Finette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Newsom delivers his first State of the State speech from the Capitol. It comes just a few weeks after unveiling a $200 billion budget proposal that serves as the financial roadmap to the state he envisions. Newsom aims to do a lot of forward-looking things in the next 12 months: build homeless shelters, acquire firefighting airplanes, even (gasp) let drivers pay with credit cards at the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Odds are, Newsom’s speech will focus largely on his ambitious plans to restore the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/BudgetSummary/GovernorsMessage.pdf\">California Dream\u003c/a>. But how does all that money prepare California for that dream — not just next year, but five, 15, 30 years from now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following are excerpts from our discussions with three experts about the issues likely to confront California at those various benchmarks on the horizon. We asked each expert what kept him up at night when contemplating that year—and how Newsom’s budget does or does not address those concerns. Interviews are edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-861003104-e1524180315497.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11663478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-861003104-e1524180315497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk by a Wells Fargo bank branch on Oct. 13, 2017, in New York City. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Year: 2024\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Issue: Recession\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Expert: Patrick Murphy, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How worried should we be that California will confront a recession in the near future?\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not a betting person, but I would bet we’ll see [one]. What will cause it? How big? How long? I don’t have that. We’ve been in a recovery\u003ca href=\"http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-anderson-forecast-economic-slowdown-on-horizon\"> for a long time\u003c/a>, we’re in uncharted territory, and it would be quite surprising if there wasn’t a slowdown in the economy at some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What can the state do to gird itself against an economic downturn?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s two schools of thought. One would be to make sure your revenues are stable and predictable in the long term, so you don’t have the highs too high and the lows too low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3703\">isn’t the course we’ve taken\u003c/a>. The course we’ve taken now is we have a volatile revenue stream, but we try to hedge our bets by socking away savings. It’s the person that doesn’t work for a salary or works piecework or consulting and has a lumpy paycheck.You have to have money in reserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So what is Newsom doing in this budget for saving while the money is pouring in?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, he’s continuing something that Gov. Jerry Brown had done, which is to focus on \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-state-budget/\">setting money \u003c/a>aside. Part of that is constitutionally required, but what’s interesting is we’re kind of going over and above that. I’ll spare the weeds, but we’re saving more than we have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other piece is the spending that’s being done. A big chunk of it is being put under the banner of \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916#The_Big_Picture\">one-time spending\u003c/a>. And what that really means is that you’re not commiting someone’s job or salary in the long term, where after year one you’re not committing to year two or year three or four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What about pensions?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s continuing to pay down some of those unfunded retirement liabilities — payments to retirement plans for state and local employees. That’s kind of like putting money in your 401k. You do it today; your benefits multiply over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So, grading from A to F, how does this budget fare in preparing us for a recession?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A:\u003c/b> I hate to give grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You were a professor.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A: \u003c/b>That was the worst part of the job. What I will say is that it’s showing a lot of foresight in how to invest a\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/newsom-california-spend-budget-surplus/\"> $20 billion windfall\u003c/a>. I wish I was doing this at home — I wish I was paying down my mortgage faster. This is kind of the equivalent of trying to pay down your mortgage faster knowing you’re going to benefit from it down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So … B+?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>B+, yeah. I was a tough grader though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/coast-file-20171002-3782-fi0bx9-e1507740219838.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11622404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/coast-file-20171002-3782-fi0bx9-e1507740219838.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Arch Bay, Laguna Beach \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Three_Arch_Bay_Photo_Taken_by_pilot_D_Ramey_Logan.jpg\">Don Ramey Logan\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\">CC BY\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Year: 2040\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Issue: Sea Level Rise\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Expert: Will Travis, sea level rise adaptation consultant\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>We’re standing right outside the Facebook Campus in Menlo Park, which sits right at sea level on the south edge of San Francisco Bay. What is this going to look like 20 years from now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some unknown point in the future,\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/22/silicon-valley-sea-level-rise-google-facebook-flood-risk\">this area will likely be fully inundated\u003c/a> by the sea. I say at some unknown point because we know \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/rising-seas-climate-change-what-you-need-to-know/\">sea level is rising\u003c/a>, and we know it will rise at an accelerated rate, but we just don’t know how fast that will happen. It depends on how effective we as a species are at reducing the emissions and carbon dioxide we put into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>It will happen, though? It’s just a question of when?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question of when. This area will flood for a day or two, and that will happen more and more frequently. Eventually the new reality will be what is now an extreme event that occurs every 10, 15, 20 years will occur every 10,15 or 20 days and then eventually all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>California’s coastline has almost always been considered an economic asset. But is that going to be the case decades from now?\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, it’s inevitable that vast parts of the coastline, which is now the most expensive real estate in the world,\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-response-rising-seas/\">will be written off\u003c/a> and have to be abandoned. That may be a more difficult crisis to deal with than the actual physical problems, because of the economic impact of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So what can the state actively do to protect against sea level rise?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the state can actively do is begin to plan for this inevitable future now. And that means sorting out what areas we can protect, how we can protect them, are we going to try to use wetlands, do we want to build higher levees? Or are there areas where we decide to pull back, perhaps prohibit new development and remove existing or older development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What did you make of Newsom’s budget?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the money in the budget to deal with climate change is really addressing mitigation, which is reducing greenhouse gases to slow the impact of climate change. The other side is adaptation, which is to acknowledge no matter how effective we are at reducing greenhouse gases, we are still going to have sea level rise in the future. Relatively speaking, there’s not much money in the governor’s budget for [adaptation] right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How would you grade his first budget on planning for a future with sea level rise?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be difficult to grade somebody like the governor who has been in office now for a [month] on a long-term issue like this. It’s like giving him a grade on a final exam when he just walked in the door to class for the first time. But I have worked with Newsom when he was mayor of San Francisco, and he could turn around and teach the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If Facebook goes underwater, is that necessarily a bad thing?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Prolonged Pause)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11148548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Robot4-1-e1477610971173.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11148548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Robot4-1-e1477610971173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma, Amelia and Piper, now greeting travelers in San Jose, are the first robots to be deployed at a U.S. airport. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mineta San Jose International)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Year: 2050\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Issue: Robots and Automation\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Expert: Johannes Moenius, professor of global business at University of Redlands\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Is there a date in the future that’s a tipping point for automation?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, we don’t really know dates. We just can project certain developments and see what can happen. My personal view is we won’t see much in the next two to three years. We need to start worrying about five years from now, and then again probably by 2040. By 2050, if we haven’t solved the problems, then we’re in really bad shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Can you give us some examples?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you think of Southern California, once self-driving trucks come on the road, [labor] replacement can happen quite quickly. All the trucks that we see on the roads right now pretty much have what they need for self-driving except for the [artificial] intelligence. You need a device a little bit smarter than a smartphone, and then you can send a truck from an on-ramp all the way across the country to an off-ramp. And that can have a major effect on employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What about the argument that automation and technological advances in the past have typically produced more jobs than they’ve replaced. In the end, isn’t it a net positive?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, historically, technological progress has been great at creating jobs. But there’s always been winners and losers. During the Industrial Revolution, some researchers estimate we saw more than 60 years of stagnant real wages. We’ve never had it historically that so many different technologies matured at the same time, and the speed of that replacement is also completely unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So what can Newsom’s budget do about a change that massive?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One pillar that I think is very important is education. A second one is entrepreneurship. And a third will be creating resilience and providing adjustment assistance for people who will be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What would you specifically like to see with workforce development?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are possibilities for strategic use of workforce development funds. So, for example, truck drivers: If you’re a truck driver, you know the writing’s on the wall. Why don’t you start something with evening education classes or things along those lines that would be more future-proof?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So more workforce development money focused on retraining. What about education?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a few really good things in the budget that point in the direction of the future, although they might not have been implemented with automation in mind. One is an increased focus on 4-year-olds from low-income families, and also a focus on transparency and accountability for school districts. We already had this large effect of digitalization on the income distribution by strengthening the top end and the bottom end. If we’re not starting to prepare low-income families and helping them attain certain levels of education, it’s going to be quite critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a cold, grey winter morning, Roberta Guise and John Rohosky greet each other on the dock outside their swim club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Heya bruiser,\" Roberta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How ya doin', doll?\" her husband responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cold water isn’t a well-known aphrodisiac. But for this California couple, the soggy depths of San Francisco Bay have long helped to stoke the flames of romance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723442\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/bay-swimmers-4-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Roberta and John head out for their swim.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/bay-swimmers-4-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/bay-swimmers-4-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/bay-swimmers-4.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberta and John head out for their swim. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberta and John, who are both in their 70s, swim in the Bay several times a week. 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She’s in a black one piece and canary yellow cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions aren't ideal. A big storm has just blown through, leaving debris, including floating logs, all over the shore and shallows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the fast-moving current, John decides to go in backwards. Roberta is doubtful about how easy it'll be to swim back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the water’s chilly, even by these veteran swimmers’ standards, at around 50 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for safety, Roberta and John have developed this highly distinctive call and response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to John's call here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003caudio controls=\"controls\">\u003csource src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2019/02/JohnRebelYellCall.mp3\">\u003c/source>\u003c/audio> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Roberta's call here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003caudio controls=\"controls\">\u003csource src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2019/02/RobertaDyingSealCall.mp3\">\u003c/source>\u003c/audio> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I call it 'dying seal,'\" says John of his wife's call. \"But I don’t think Roberta likes that name.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John says his call — which he calls the 'Rebel Yell' — puts him in the fighting spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's what the Confederate soldiers used to do before they charged the Union lines,\" John says. \"It's supposed to scare everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberta’s call is also wild. But in a different way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't pick the seal sound; it picked me,\" she says. \"That's just what came out. And it stuck.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11723443 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/bay-swimmers-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Roberta and John outside the South End Rowing Club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberta and John outside the South End Rowing Club. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberta and John met at the club in the 1980s, and started using their calls soon after they became involved in a clandestine romance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Originally, we didn't want people to know that we had made it official,\" Roberta says of those early days. \"So that, I believe, is how we started those calls. 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And vice versa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Roberta and John went public about their relationship, they also started to put their calls to a different use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Roberta and I started swimming together more regularly, it was a good way to signal to each other,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He'll know by how far away the call is where I am in the water, and know to locate me in the water,\" Roberta says. \"Ditto with John.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11723446 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/bay-swimmers-6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The kiss on the Bay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kiss on the Bay. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberta recently had a hip replacement and John has dealt with heart arrhythmia. 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"content": "\u003cp>Whether it’s a deadly cold snap or a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/hole-opens-under-antarctic-glacier-big-enough-fit-two-thirds-ncna965696\">hole under an Antarctic glacier\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/08/655360909/grim-forecast-from-u-n-on-global-climate-change\">terrifying new report\u003c/a>, there seem to be constant reminders now of the dangers that climate change poses to humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., think they have a start to a solution. Thursday they \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729033-Green-New-Deal-FINAL\">introduced\u003c/a> a framework defining what they call a “Green New Deal” — what they foresee as a massive policy package that would remake the U.S. economy and, they hope, eliminate all U.S. carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least five Democratic presidential hopefuls in the Senate — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714733/kamala-harris-announces-bid-for-presidency-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a> of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont — co-sponsored the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she welcomed “the enthusiasm,” she fell short of endorsing it — noting she had not yet read the resolution. “I welcome the new deal and any other proposals,” said Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Speaker Nancy Pelosi performs Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (right) swearing-in on Jan. 3, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11724464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Nancy Pelosi performs Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (right) swearing-in on Jan. 3, 2019. \u003ccite>(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of Pelosi’s concern may be that it’s a really big — potentially impossibly big — undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ocasio-Cortez said, however, that’s exactly what’s needed. And she downplayed perceptions of criticism from the House Speaker, telling the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> she’s on good terms with the California Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the solutions that we have considered big and bold are nowhere near the scale of the actual problem that climate change presents to us,” Ocasio-Cortez told NPR’s Steve Inskeep in an interview that aired Thursday on \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “It could be part of a larger solution, but no one has actually scoped out what that larger solution would entail. And so that’s really what we’re trying to accomplish with the Green New Deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the Green New Deal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In very broad strokes, the Green New Deal legislation laid out by Ocasio-Cortez and Markey sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy, from electricity generation to transportation to agriculture. In the process, it aims to create jobs and boost the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that vein, the proposal stresses that it aims to meet its ambitious goals while paying special attention to groups like the poor, disabled and minority communities that might be disproportionately affected by massive economic transitions like those the Green New Deal calls for.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/692259103/692259104\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Importantly, it’s a nonbinding resolution, meaning that even if it were to pass (more on the challenges to that below), it wouldn’t itself create any new programs. Instead, it would potentially affirm the House’s intention that these things should be done in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers pass nonbinding resolutions for things as simple as \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-resolution/58\">congratulating Super Bowl winners\u003c/a>, as well as to send political messages — for example, \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/business/2018/07/trump-and-trade-congress-passes-non-binding-purely-symbolic-motion-to-not-really-stop-him.html\">telling the president they disapprove of his trade policies\u003c/a>, as the Senate did in summer 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the specifics of that framework?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/Resolution%20on%20a%20Green%20New%20Deal.pdf\">bill calls for a\u003c/a> “10-year national mobilizations” toward accomplishing a series of goals that the resolution lays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Note: Ocasio-Cortez’s office released an \u003ca href=\"https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/Resolution%20on%20a%20Green%20New%20Deal.pdf\">updated version\u003c/a> of the bill on Thursday. The earlier version, which was included in a prior version of this story, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5729033-Green-New-Deal-FINAL.html\">still available here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1915384/can-california-really-go-100-percent-renewable-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can California Really Go 100 Percent Renewable Energy?\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1915384/can-california-really-go-100-percent-renewable-energy\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/Nrel-solar.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Among the most prominent issues, the deal calls for “meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources.” The ultimate goal is to stop using fossil fuels entirely, Ocasio-Cortez’s office told NPR, as well as to transition away from nuclear energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the framework, as described in the legislation as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/blog-posts/green-new-deal-faq\">blog post\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ\">“FAQs”\u003c/a> from Ocasio-Cortez’s office, calls for a variety of other lofty goals:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“upgrading all existing buildings” in the country for energy efficiency;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>working with farmers “to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions … as much as is technologically feasible” (while supporting family farms and promoting “universal access to healthy food”);\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“overhauling transportation systems” to reduce emissions — including expanding electric car manufacturing, building “charging stations everywhere,” and expanding high-speed rail to “a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary”;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>a guaranteed job “with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security” for every American;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“high-quality health care” for all Americans.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Which is to say: the Green New Deal framework combines big climate-change-related ideas with a wish list of progressive economic proposals that, taken together, would touch nearly every American and overhaul the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are those ideas doable?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the climate science community, as well as Green New Deal proponents, agree that saving the world from disastrous effects of climate change requires aggressive action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some of the Green New Deal’s goals are indeed aggressive. For example, Ocasio-Cortez told NPR that “in 10 years, we’re trying to go carbon-neutral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1930972/why-100-percent-clean-energy-in-california-is-gonna-be-tricky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why 100 Percent Clean Energy in California is Gonna Be Tricky\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1930972/why-100-percent-clean-energy-in-california-is-gonna-be-tricky\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/solar-roof-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to Jesse Jenkins, a postdoctoral environmental fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, that may be an unreachable goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where we need to be targeting really is a net-zero carbon economy by about 2050, which itself is an enormous challenge and will require reductions in carbon emissions much faster than have been achieved historically,” he said. “2030 might be a little bit early to be targeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, removing combustible engines from the roads or expanding high-speed rail to largely eliminate air travel would require nothing short of revolutionizing transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, some of the more progressive economic policies — universal health care and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/609091985/likely-2020-democratic-candidates-want-to-guarantee-a-job-to-every-american\">a job guarantee\u003c/a>, for example — while popular among some Democrats, would also be very difficult to implement and transition into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of all that, implementing all of these policies could cost trillions upon trillions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Ivanpah5.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Ivanpah5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11724494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Ivanpah5.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Ivanpah5-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Ivanpah5-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Ivanpah5-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Ivanpah5-1200x844.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert is the world’s largest solar farm. A plan for 100% renewable energy would require more investment on a similar scale. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Altogether, the Green New Deal is a loose framework. It does not lay out guidance on \u003cem>how \u003c/em>to implement these policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather, the idea is to “begin work immediately on Green New Deal bills to put the nuts and bolts on the plan described in this resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And again, all of this is hypothetical — it would be tough to implement and potentially extremely expensive … \u003cem>if \u003c/em>it passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So did the idea of a Green New Deal start with Ocasio-Cortez?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Green New Deal has in the last year or so grown central to progressive Democrats’ policy conversations, the idea of a Green New Deal itself is well over a decade old. Environmentalists were talking about it as far back as 2003, when the term popped up in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Mother-Earth-s-cozy-conference-Annual-Bioneers-2570429.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> about an environmentalist conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It gained traction with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/opinion/19friedman.html\">2007\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em> column\u003c/a> from Thomas Friedman, where he used the phrase to describe the scope of energy investments he thought would be necessary to slow climate change on a large scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phrase was also used around President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus, which had \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/15/the-trouble-with-the-green-new-deal-223977\">around $90 billion\u003c/a> worth of environmental initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>‘It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions\u003c/strong> that we receive. The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it right?’\u003ccite>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While the idea gained some currency in Europe and also in the Green Party, it wasn’t until after the 2016 election that it really gained broad popularity on the left in the U.S. (Vox’s Dave Roberts has a more \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/12/21/18144138/green-new-deal-alexandria-ocasio-cortez\">thorough history here\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This latest iteration is different both in the political energy that it has amassed and the grand scope it is taking. While it was a product of the progressive activist community, Ocasio-Cortez has been perhaps the most visible proponent of the plan and has helped it gain nationwide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So will it pass?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That looks unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, there’s some energy for it on the left — some House Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/green-new-deal-house-resolution-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-9bca3bd8-3932-43e8-87c9-caf2011ed533.html\">have already said they will support the bill\u003c/a>. However, there are indications House leadership isn’t prioritizing the idea as much as those more liberal Democrats would like — Speaker Nancy Pelosi \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/423492-house-dems-formalize-climate-committee-plans-without-green-new-deal\">frustrated Green New Deal proponents\u003c/a> by not giving them the kind of committee they wanted to put the policies together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deal’s Thursday release, she also cast the plan as simply one of any number of environmental proposals the House might consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/07/pelosi-trump-government-shutdown-1154355\">Pelosi told Politico\u003c/a>. “The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ocasio-Cortez, though, said she wasn’t offended that Pelosi called the resolution “the green dream” and that she doesn’t “consider that to be a dismissive term.” The freshman Congresswoman also downplayed her absence from a select panel studying climate change. She said Pelosi asked her to serve on the committee, but she declined because it focuses on investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi tapped eight Democrats to serve on the special committee, which will also include six Republicans. Among those committee members are Californians Julia Brownley, Jared Huffman and Mike Levin. Pelosi said the committee “will be vital in advancing ambitious progress for our planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While both Pelosi and those backing Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal agree drastic action is needed on climate change, it’s easy to see how the bill could also be dangerous for moderate House Democrats, many of whom come from swing districts and may be loath to touch such a progressive proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Republicans — even those worried about climate change — the package, with its liberal economic ideas, will also likely be a nonstarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934809/federal-report-climate-change-already-hurting-u-s-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Report: Climate Change Already Hurting U.S. Communities\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934809/federal-report-climate-change-already-hurting-u-s-communities\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/RS33848_couple_GettyImages-1060720780-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Someone’s going to have to prove to me how that can be accomplished because it looks to me like for the foreseeable future we’re gonna be using a substantial amount of fossil fuels,” said Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., co-chair of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, speaking to NPR before the Green New Deal’s text was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Rooney is in favor of a carbon tax, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/418596-bipartisan-group-of-lawmakers-propose-landmark-carbon-tax\">a policy he helped propose\u003c/a> with a bipartisan group of lawmakers in November. Information from Ocasio-Cortez’s office says that the Green New Deal could include a carbon tax, but that it would be “a tiny part” of the total package of policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, there’s little chance of a Green New Deal getting a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If it’s not going to pass and it’s not even binding, why is it worth even talking about?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth talking about because it already is a politically powerful idea among Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, presidential candidates are being asked whether they support the idea of a Green New Deal, meaning it’s easy to see the issue becoming a litmus test for some voters in both the 2020 congressional elections and the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1932445/un-report-issues-life-or-death-warning-for-planetary-survival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN Report Issues Life-Or-Death Warning For Planetary Survival\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1932445/un-report-issues-life-or-death-warning-for-planetary-survival\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/08/smokestacks-featured.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To more liberal Democrats, the prospect of such an ambitious economic and environmental package at the center of the 2020 campaign may be particularly energizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s like a really weird instinct that the Democratic Party develops to not be exciting intentionally,” said Sean McElwee, co-founder of the progressive think tank Data for Progress. “Most of politics is getting people excited enough to show up and vote for you. And I think that a Green New Deal and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/01/30/689930022/several-democrats-eying-a-presidential-run-embrace-medicare-for-all\">Medicare-for-all\u003c/a> — these are ideas that are big enough to get people excited and show up to vote for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Ocasio-Cortez says that a policy like the Green New Deal could get voters excited enough to pressure their Congress members to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>‘It’s a big legislation because it’s a huge [expletive] problem!\u003c/strong> We’re all going to die.’\u003ccite>Sean McElwee, co-founder of the progressive think tank Data for Progress\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I do think that when there’s a wide spectrum of debate on an issue, that is where the public plays a role. That is where the public needs to call their member of Congress and say, ‘This is something that I care about,’ ” she told NPR, adding, “Where I do have trust is in my colleagues’ capacity to change and evolve and be adaptable and listen to their constituents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, it’s easy to see how a Green New Deal litmus test could backfire on that front, endangering some Democrats — particularly in swing districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just about national politics. The national-level energy for a Green New Deal could boost efforts in cities and states. \u003ca href=\"https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-green-new-deal-included-2019-executive-budget\">New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u003c/a>, for example, has been pushing a Green New Deal in his state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the politics, there’s the fact that climate change remains an impending threat — one for which the world has yet to come up with a fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big legislation because it’s a huge [expletive] problem! We’re all going to die,” said McElwee. “Every week it seems like the risks of climate change become more real, and the amount of devastation it is going to wreak upon humanity becomes larger, and that means we have to do bigger things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Whether it’s a deadly cold snap or a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/hole-opens-under-antarctic-glacier-big-enough-fit-two-thirds-ncna965696\">hole under an Antarctic glacier\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/08/655360909/grim-forecast-from-u-n-on-global-climate-change\">terrifying new report\u003c/a>, there seem to be constant reminders now of the dangers that climate change poses to humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., think they have a start to a solution. Thursday they \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729033-Green-New-Deal-FINAL\">introduced\u003c/a> a framework defining what they call a “Green New Deal” — what they foresee as a massive policy package that would remake the U.S. economy and, they hope, eliminate all U.S. carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least five Democratic presidential hopefuls in the Senate — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714733/kamala-harris-announces-bid-for-presidency-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a> of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont — co-sponsored the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she welcomed “the enthusiasm,” she fell short of endorsing it — noting she had not yet read the resolution. “I welcome the new deal and any other proposals,” said Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11724464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Speaker Nancy Pelosi performs Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (right) swearing-in on Jan. 3, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11724464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/PelosiCortez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Nancy Pelosi performs Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (right) swearing-in on Jan. 3, 2019. \u003ccite>(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of Pelosi’s concern may be that it’s a really big — potentially impossibly big — undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ocasio-Cortez said, however, that’s exactly what’s needed. And she downplayed perceptions of criticism from the House Speaker, telling the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> she’s on good terms with the California Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the solutions that we have considered big and bold are nowhere near the scale of the actual problem that climate change presents to us,” Ocasio-Cortez told NPR’s Steve Inskeep in an interview that aired Thursday on \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “It could be part of a larger solution, but no one has actually scoped out what that larger solution would entail. And so that’s really what we’re trying to accomplish with the Green New Deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the Green New Deal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In very broad strokes, the Green New Deal legislation laid out by Ocasio-Cortez and Markey sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy, from electricity generation to transportation to agriculture. In the process, it aims to create jobs and boost the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that vein, the proposal stresses that it aims to meet its ambitious goals while paying special attention to groups like the poor, disabled and minority communities that might be disproportionately affected by massive economic transitions like those the Green New Deal calls for.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/692259103/692259104\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Importantly, it’s a nonbinding resolution, meaning that even if it were to pass (more on the challenges to that below), it wouldn’t itself create any new programs. Instead, it would potentially affirm the House’s intention that these things should be done in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers pass nonbinding resolutions for things as simple as \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-resolution/58\">congratulating Super Bowl winners\u003c/a>, as well as to send political messages — for example, \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/business/2018/07/trump-and-trade-congress-passes-non-binding-purely-symbolic-motion-to-not-really-stop-him.html\">telling the president they disapprove of his trade policies\u003c/a>, as the Senate did in summer 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the specifics of that framework?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/Resolution%20on%20a%20Green%20New%20Deal.pdf\">bill calls for a\u003c/a> “10-year national mobilizations” toward accomplishing a series of goals that the resolution lays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Note: Ocasio-Cortez’s office released an \u003ca href=\"https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/Resolution%20on%20a%20Green%20New%20Deal.pdf\">updated version\u003c/a> of the bill on Thursday. The earlier version, which was included in a prior version of this story, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5729033-Green-New-Deal-FINAL.html\">still available here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1915384/can-california-really-go-100-percent-renewable-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can California Really Go 100 Percent Renewable Energy?\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1915384/can-california-really-go-100-percent-renewable-energy\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/Nrel-solar.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Among the most prominent issues, the deal calls for “meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources.” The ultimate goal is to stop using fossil fuels entirely, Ocasio-Cortez’s office told NPR, as well as to transition away from nuclear energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the framework, as described in the legislation as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/blog-posts/green-new-deal-faq\">blog post\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ\">“FAQs”\u003c/a> from Ocasio-Cortez’s office, calls for a variety of other lofty goals:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“upgrading all existing buildings” in the country for energy efficiency;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>working with farmers “to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions … as much as is technologically feasible” (while supporting family farms and promoting “universal access to healthy food”);\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“overhauling transportation systems” to reduce emissions — including expanding electric car manufacturing, building “charging stations everywhere,” and expanding high-speed rail to “a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary”;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>a guaranteed job “with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security” for every American;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“high-quality health care” for all Americans.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Which is to say: the Green New Deal framework combines big climate-change-related ideas with a wish list of progressive economic proposals that, taken together, would touch nearly every American and overhaul the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are those ideas doable?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the climate science community, as well as Green New Deal proponents, agree that saving the world from disastrous effects of climate change requires aggressive action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some of the Green New Deal’s goals are indeed aggressive. 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While it was a product of the progressive activist community, Ocasio-Cortez has been perhaps the most visible proponent of the plan and has helped it gain nationwide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So will it pass?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That looks unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, there’s some energy for it on the left — some House Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/green-new-deal-house-resolution-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-9bca3bd8-3932-43e8-87c9-caf2011ed533.html\">have already said they will support the bill\u003c/a>. 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She said Pelosi asked her to serve on the committee, but she declined because it focuses on investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi tapped eight Democrats to serve on the special committee, which will also include six Republicans. Among those committee members are Californians Julia Brownley, Jared Huffman and Mike Levin. Pelosi said the committee “will be vital in advancing ambitious progress for our planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While both Pelosi and those backing Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal agree drastic action is needed on climate change, it’s easy to see how the bill could also be dangerous for moderate House Democrats, many of whom come from swing districts and may be loath to touch such a progressive proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Republicans — even those worried about climate change — the package, with its liberal economic ideas, will also likely be a nonstarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934809/federal-report-climate-change-already-hurting-u-s-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Report: Climate Change Already Hurting U.S. Communities\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934809/federal-report-climate-change-already-hurting-u-s-communities\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/RS33848_couple_GettyImages-1060720780-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Someone’s going to have to prove to me how that can be accomplished because it looks to me like for the foreseeable future we’re gonna be using a substantial amount of fossil fuels,” said Rep. 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Information from Ocasio-Cortez’s office says that the Green New Deal could include a carbon tax, but that it would be “a tiny part” of the total package of policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, there’s little chance of a Green New Deal getting a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If it’s not going to pass and it’s not even binding, why is it worth even talking about?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth talking about because it already is a politically powerful idea among Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, presidential candidates are being asked whether they support the idea of a Green New Deal, meaning it’s easy to see the issue becoming a litmus test for some voters in both the 2020 congressional elections and the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1932445/un-report-issues-life-or-death-warning-for-planetary-survival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN Report Issues Life-Or-Death Warning For Planetary Survival\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1932445/un-report-issues-life-or-death-warning-for-planetary-survival\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/08/smokestacks-featured.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To more liberal Democrats, the prospect of such an ambitious economic and environmental package at the center of the 2020 campaign may be particularly energizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s like a really weird instinct that the Democratic Party develops to not be exciting intentionally,” said Sean McElwee, co-founder of the progressive think tank Data for Progress. “Most of politics is getting people excited enough to show up and vote for you. And I think that a Green New Deal and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/01/30/689930022/several-democrats-eying-a-presidential-run-embrace-medicare-for-all\">Medicare-for-all\u003c/a> — these are ideas that are big enough to get people excited and show up to vote for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Ocasio-Cortez says that a policy like the Green New Deal could get voters excited enough to pressure their Congress members to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>‘It’s a big legislation because it’s a huge [expletive] problem!\u003c/strong> We’re all going to die.’\u003ccite>Sean McElwee, co-founder of the progressive think tank Data for Progress\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I do think that when there’s a wide spectrum of debate on an issue, that is where the public plays a role. 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