Created by scholars at the Climate Solutions Lab in Brown University’s Watson Institute, the map reveals what economic benefits individuals and communities could reap if the U.S. pursues a net-zero energy policy.
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climate opportunity. create good jobs, invest in our country and our future. not leave communities behind. too often when we tell someone, look, 80% of americans from 2005 to 2015, their income stayed flat or dropped. when you turn around and say to folks, the most important issue facing you is climate change, look, we can all agree we need to address if and we better be addressing it. senator manchin has said, as with the build back better provision, that this next bill will have climate provisions in it. if we tell people that s the most important issue when they say, right now, i don t flow how know how i m going to buy my kids christmas presents or pay for childcare this month or pay for health care and prescription drugs, we need to make sure that what we re talking about will ring in people s lives and they can see it and will improve their lives.