The senator displayed images from “Star Wars” and “Aquaman,” as well as Ronald Reagan riding a dinosaur and firing a machine gun, while deriding the Green New Deal.
Utah Senator Mike Lee offered an alternative proposal to the Green New Deal while speaking on the Senate floor on Tuesday: Get married and have kids.
"The solution to climate change is not this unserious resolution, but the serious business of human flourishing – the solution to so many of our problems, at all times and in all places: fall in love, get married, and have some kids," he tweeted, along with a picture of his presentation."Unfortunately, fear is unavoidable when debating the substance of the resolution before this body today – that is climate change, socialism, and the Green New Deal," Lee said.
Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly brought up climate change with more urgency than many other members of the Democratic Party and said that young Americans feel that climate change poses a grave threat. Lee has previously cited concerns about the economic costs of addressing climate change and questioned whether global warming is being caused by humans. His mockery adds to a wealth of scorn Republicans have expressed toward the Green New Deal.Republicans, including the president, have mocked the proposals put forth.
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