On the trail (again): the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins is now running for President
North County Public Radio
December 4, 2019
By Emily Russell
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Clearly, Hawkins has a passion for politics. He’s one of the founders the national Green Party and was the first candidate to campaign for the Green New Deal in 2010. That was during one of his bids for governor.
Now the Green New Deal is a major talking point among Democrats. Hawkins says the trillions of dollars needed to transform the U.S. economy into a green economy is worth the investment.
“It’s going to be more expensive basically to have extinction, mass extinction— collapse of the ecosystem, collapse of agriculture, collapse of civilization. That’s what the climate emergency is threatening.” …(read more)