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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2017
The controversial proposal to address climate change excites many, but worries others due to its high cost.
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The social and economic conditions today are different from what it was in the America of the 1920s and 1930s (“Green New Deal,” Star-Advertiser, Insight, March 10).
As a child in the 1930s, I grew up in a Hawaiian/local household with parents and grandparents who experienced the Great Depression, which also affected the Territory of Hawaii.
It was revolutionary social-economic reform that President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted in the First New Deal and subsequent Second New Deal to restore prosperity to Americans by government intervention. Because of the political and capitalistic economic forces against the New Deal, it was not entirely successfully until World War II.
The same forces are combatting the moral, social and environmental concepts of the Green New Deal, primarily over their perceived notion of its cost.
What is different now is the crisis of global warming and impacts of climate change that will affect all life forms on Earth if we continue the status quo.
This is unacceptable to the younger generation. Let’s support them as they strike for and speak up for the Green New Deal.
Charles K. Burrows
Kaneohe
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