Climate tweets on Bennet

Michael Bennet, a Dem Senator from Colorado + a 2020 presidential candidate, just rolled out his climate vision: "America's Climate Change Plan" (read here: https://t.co/j1gMfH0U3y) 1/ pic.twitter.com/9VKKAa2Jee

— Zahra Hirji (@Zhirji28) May 20, 2019

One of @MichaelBennet's top climate goals is having the US achieve net-zero emissions ASAP, no later than 2050.

If that sounds familiar, it's because @BetoORourke has the same goal is his plan. (https://t.co/Y72RqbdVkN) 2/ pic.twitter.com/ruyz6Alkf7

— Zahra Hirji (@Zhirji28) May 20, 2019

.@MichaelBennet also proposes carving out 30% of US lands (and I'm pretty he doesn't mean public lands but *all* lands) for conservation.

This is one of Bennet's novel ideas. (It's unclear exactly how it will work) 3/ pic.twitter.com/FeSKJ3PoHU

— Zahra Hirji (@Zhirji28) May 20, 2019

In his climate plan, @MichaelBennet proposes to "build and sustain 10 million zero-emission economy jobs in 10 years."

Again, this rings similar to @JayInslee pitching millions of new jobs over the next decade. https://t.co/hhAWNzObBa

— Zahra Hirji (@Zhirji28) May 20, 2019

In a press call about the new climate plan, @MichaelBennet said: "We should never have lost an election to Donald Trump over jobs, especially as he framed it," adding that it's a false choice to pitch job creation as contrary to acting on climate

— Zahra Hirji (@Zhirji28) May 20, 2019

.@MichaelBennet's climate plans offers broad goals, but few details on how exactly to achieve them. When asked about this, he said figuring out those details will be part of his first 100 days in office.

— Zahra Hirji (@Zhirji28) May 20, 2019

What's notable is that @MichaelBennet's climate plan focuses on jobs and particularly sectors like agriculture and energy.

Bu largely absent from the plan is a discussion about environmental justice, a major theme in the #GreenNewDeal and @sunrisemvmt campaign

— Zahra Hirji (@Zhirji28) May 20, 2019