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RES-2019-002 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT REPRESENTATIVE DAVID PRICE ENDORSE ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ'S RESOLUTION FOR A SELECT COMMITTEE ON A GREEN NEW DEAL WHEREAS, on October 8, 2018, the United Nations released a special report, criticized by many leading climate scientists as overly conservative, which projected that limiting warming to the unsafe 1.5°C target this century will require an unprecedented transformation of every sector of the global economy over the next 12 years; and WHEREAS, on November 23, 2018 the Federal Government issued a climate study detailing the massive threat that climate change poses to the American economy and underscoring the need for immediate climate emergency action at all levels of government; and WHEREAS, the death and destruction already wrought by global warming of approximately 1.1°C above late 19th century levels demonstrates that the Earth is already too hot for safety and justice as attested by increased and intensifying wildfires, floods, rising seas, diseases, droughts and extreme weather; and WHEREAS, restoring a safe and stable climate requires a "Climate Mobilization" at all levels of government on a scale not seen since World War 11 to reach zero greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors at emergency speed, to rapidly and safely drawdown or remove all the excess carbon from the atmosphere, to end the 6th mass extinction of species, and to implement measures to protect all people and species from the increasingly severe consequences of climate change; and WHEREAS, to address the nation's urgent climate change needs and impacts, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proposed a "Green New Deal"; and WHEREAS, the proposed Green New Deal would be a sweeping overhaul of the economy that includes equity and justice in its solutions and has the following goals- 1. Dramatically expand existing renewable power sources and deploy new production capacity with the goal of meeting 100% of national power demand through renewable sources; 2. building a national, energy-efficient, "smart" grid; 3. upgrading every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety; 4. eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing, agricultural and other industries, including by investing in local-scale agriculture in communities across the country; 5. eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from repairing and improving transportation and other infrastructure, and upgrading water infrastructure to ensure universal access to clean water; 6. funding massive investment in the drawdown of greenhouse gases; 7. malting "green" technology, industry, expertise, products and services a major export of the United States, with the aim of becoming an international leader in