Ocasio 12 Years
In her latest bizarre, out-of-the-Twilight-Zone comments, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed that the world would end in twelve years if climate change wasn’t addressed and that she gives “zero f.cks” about those saying she shouldn’t make waves in DC. The catch: While there were only 12 years left till 2030 when the IPCC report came out, the reality is that we have a diverse array of choices before us in terms of how soon to make emissions cuts and how significant and costly they are, top climate scientists told Axios.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed Sunday that people who believe the suggestion that the world will end in 12 years have the intelligence of a “sea sponge,” even though Ocasio-Cortez made that very claim in January.
Ocasio-cortez World Ends In 12 Years
Ocasio-Cortez called the fight to mitigate the effects of climate change her generation's 'World War II.' 'Millennials and Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up, and we're. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Monday, “The world is gonna end in twelve years if we don’t address climate change.” The 29-year-old former bartender made the remark at a Martin Luther King Day event at Riverside Church in New York City during an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. The year 2019 has been a busy one for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). It began when she was sworn in as a new member of the 116th Congress, which boasted the most diverse cohort in U.S.
Ocasio-Cortez suggested that Republicans too often mischaracterize her dry humor and “fact check” her jokes, claiming that they take them too literally. One of her alleged jokes includes a January claim that the world will end in 12 years if we do not address climate change, comparing it to a modern World War II-style struggle.
“Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows,” Ocasio-Cortez said:
This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and “fact check” it.
Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.
But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows. https://t.co/pmkwrdeAnq
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 12 Years
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 12, 2019
“I think that the part of it that is generational is that millennials and Gen-Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ and your biggest issue is–your biggest issue is, ‘How are we going to pay for it?’” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II.”