Warren’s New $2 Trillion Green Manufacturing Plan Welcomed as ‘Win-Win’ for Climate and Workers

By Jessica Corbett

As new polling showed Tuesday that public support for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign has continued to rise as she’s introduced a series of ambitious policy proposals, the Democratic candidate unveiled a $2 trillion renewable energy and green manufacturing plan welcomed by climate campaigners as a boon for both the planet and U.S. workers.

“With this plan, Elizabeth Warren is seizing the enormous opportunity that transitioning to 100 percent clean energy represents for people across the country,” Greenpeace USA senior climate campaigner Jack Shapiro said in a statement. “The renewable energy economy is a win-win for our climate and communities, and should be at the core of any plan to create jobs and spur innovation.”

Zach Carter, in a piece for HuffPost Tuesday, pointed out that Warren’s broad economic platform follows a series of “ambitious, meticulously detailed” plans on everything from breaking up big tech giants like Amazon and Google to forgiving student debt and establishing universal childcare. However, he argued, the economic platform that she discussed in Detroit Tuesday “is a little different.”

The Massachusetts Democrat’s economic agenda for the nation “retains Warren’s wonk-flair,” Carter wrote, “but the heart of her proposal is ideological rather than technical. Warren is making a crystal-clear statement of principles, and an equally plain break with the past 30 years of American trade policy ― up to and including the presidency of Donald Trump.”

The presidential hopeful’s “astonishing plan for economic patriotism” was celebrated by Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, as “in a class by itself, even for Warren.”

“Warren’s proposal does nothing less than turn inside out the globalist assumptions pursued by the past several administrations, Democrat and Republican alike,” Kuttner wrote Tuesday. “With this plan, Warren has begun an overdue debate that she deserves to win, both intellectually and politically. And she has demonstrated once again her potential as a powerful force against Donald Trump.”

Reposted with permission from our media associate Common Dreams.