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DRUMMER: “ — industrial capacity in American manufacturing to deploy all the resources of our entire society, not just our money but our ingenuity to tackle this crisis and to do so in a way that grows our economy and that gives people a share of that new wealth and that new growth.”
HAYES: “I think people see that there’s a little bit like a combination "Taco Bell/Pizza Hut" situation here. It’s like- it’s cool they’re together but do they need to be together?”
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “They do- they do and it’s not like that situation at all. Because here’s the deal- here’s the deal is that we could solve all the environmental issues in the world if those climate policies and solutions are drafted on to the existing framework of economic injustice, then we will perpetuate our social problems and so even if you do pass — and the yellow vests in France are a perfect example of what happens when you do not address economic and social justice in the same sweep as climate policy. Because what happens is that A, the policy becomes unsustainable. B, society starts to fall apart, which is what happens in income inequality and then C, we don’t actually solve the environmental issue.”