On Thursday morning, Bernie Sanders announced a plan to get to 100% renewable energy by 2030, and complete Carbon Neutrality by 2050, a plan that is intended to pay for itself in 15 years. This speech announces that fact and hits some highlights, but isn't even a broad sketch of all of the details.
A much more detailed outline of the plan is up on Bernie's campaign Web site. (The outline of the outline is quoted below.)
Passing over the paywalled NYT and WaPO (Boo! Hiss!) we have Gizmodo: Bernie Sanders' $16 Trillion Climate Plan Is Nothing Short of a Revolution
You can hear his voice in everything as it spits hot fire about prosecuting the fossil fuel industry, uplifting workers, and creating a whole swath of new public works programs and infrastructure. It also calls for 100 percent renewable energy for transportation and electricity sectors by 2030 while eschewing nuclear power and demilitarizing the world, setting a goal that’s somewhere between wildly ambitious and out of reach.
Out of reach, eh? We'll let the markets be the judge of that.
We do not do these things because they are easy, but because they are hard!
JFK