After four years of climate denial, a simple acknowledgment of reality might have been sufficient, but incredibly we now have a middle-of-the-road, old-time political creature stepping forward and proposing bold measures to save America. Climate change is the central issue, but Biden has tied it to economic revival, the modernization of America’s infrastructure and an attack on extreme income inequality. Three years of economic boom times never trickled down to the Midwest’s workers as Trump promised. The boom culminated in the economic catastrophe and massive failure of government during the COVID-19 crisis that ended Trump’s presidency. The idea that we need a New-Deal-style set of government interventions to revive the economy is supported by a solid majority of Americans. Targeting those interventions to modernizing the nation’s energy, water and transportation infrastructure is wildly popular. Subsidizing parents to eliminate child poverty is also popular with everyone but the hard-core right-wing minority.
在经历了四年的气候否定论之后，（其实美国只要）简单地承认现实可能就足够了，但令人难以置信的是，我们现在有一个中庸的、旧时代的政治生物站了出来，提出了拯救美国的大胆措施。气候变化是核心问题，但拜登将其与经济复兴、美国基础设施的现代化以及对极端收入不平等的攻击联系在一起。三年的经济繁荣时期从未像特朗普承诺的那样，涓滴不漏地惠及中西部的工人。繁荣的高潮是在COVID-19危机期间的经济灾难和政府的大规模失败，结束了特朗普的总统任期。我们需要一套新政式的政府干预措施来重振经济，这一观点得到了绝大多数美国人的支持。将这些干预措施用于国家能源、水和交通基础设施的现代化，受到广泛欢迎。为消除儿童贫困而向父母提供补贴，除了少数顽固的右翼分子，也受到所有人的欢迎。
Biden has resisted environmental orthodoxy calling for pricing carbon and instead is focusing on the practical tasks of decarbonizing the economy:
1, Using the purchasing power of the federal government to promote renewable energy, energy efficiency and electric vehicles.
2, Subsidizing the modernization of energy systems to encourage the distributed and more efficient generation of electricity.
3, Putting unemployed miners back to work capping leaking gas and oil wells and reducing methane pollution.
4, Subsidizing transportation infrastructure, including electric vehicle charging stations and mass transit along with roads, tunnels, and bridges. Resisting new road construction by favoring rehabilitation of existing roads.
5, Research and development funds for new renewable energy technology.
6, Constantly reinforcing the connection between solving the nation’s twin crises of climate and employment.
拜登抵制了要求对碳进行定价的环境正统观念，而是专注于经济去碳化的实际任务：
1，利用联邦政府的购买力来促进可再生能源、能源效率和电动汽车。
2，补贴能源系统的现代化，以鼓励分布式和更有效的发电。
3，让失业的矿工重新工作，封住泄漏的天然气和油井，减少甲烷污染。
4，补贴交通基础设施，包括电动汽车充电站和公共交通，以及道路、隧道和桥梁。抵制新的道路建设，支持修复现有道路。
5，为新的可再生能源技术提供研究和开发资金。
6，不断加强解决国家的气候和就业的双重危机之间的联系。
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