AOC Suggests Turning Rikers Island into Solar Utility to Help Fight Global Warming

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: “She saw that if you just put 25 percent of Rikers, just 25 percent of Rikers Island, and cover it in solar panels, we can close every toxic power plant in New York City that was built in the last two decades. (cheers) And we have to always show, we have to always realize that these injustices aren't abstract, right? The clean air, our right to clean air and our right, and our access to clean water always falls along lines of income, it falls along lines of privilege. And so, what we need to make sure is that no child is getting subjected to asthma because of the family that they were born in and the zip code that they were born in, that no person should get lead in their water because they couldn't afford to live in a high-rise apartment. These are not luxuries, these are rights.”