Jill Stein Quotes About Renewable Energy

Quotes about: Renewable Energy

• I'm the one candidate that can really stand up for what it is that the American people are really clamoring for. And that means jobs, an emergency jobs program. We call for the creation of 20 million jobs, to solve the emergency of climate change, and we call for 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2030.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Mean, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Creating, Healthy

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

• The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that is made possible by moving to 100% clean renewable energy, where we cannot justify wars for oil, and where we cannot justify having some 700, 800 bases gathered around the world in something like 100 countries in significant measure protecting either access to fossil fuels or protecting routes of transportation.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Military, War

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

• We call for a green New Deal, like the New Deal that got us out of the Great Depression, but in this case focusing on green jobs to create 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, which is exactly what the science calls for.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Energy, Green

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

• There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet] show those savings, in fact, are enough to pay the costs of creating 100% clean renewable energy.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Creating, Energy

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

• While we've doubled renewable energy, it was only a tiny portion of the energy portfolio to start with. But what we did was totally take the lid off fossil fuel extractions in every way imaginable. On the day following [Barack] Obama's trip to the Louisiana floods, you know, we had, I think, another 25 million acres that went on sale in the Gulf for further extraction.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Energy, Louisiana

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

• Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.

  Jill Stein

  War, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

• That's why we call for a New Deal prototype. Which means we are creating the jobs - nationally funded program but locally controlled - with guidelines to achieve 100% clean renewable energy through wind, water and sun by 2030. Also to create a sustainable food system, since this is a major portion of climate emissions, and also calling for public transportation as well as infrastructure restoration including in that ecosystem restoration.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Mean, Wind

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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