I know what I am hoping to do will be difficult to accomplish in a meaningful timeframe, but if we want to even try to have a sustainable future and a sustainable economy at the same time we need to make some bold changes. These decisions, I believe, will be viewed as great some of America's defining heroic acts in future history books, like how we used our newfound American industry to win World War Two. When the economy got hit hard during the coronavirus pandemic millions of Americans have been furloughed or outright laid-off. This creates immense amounts of budgeting issues due to the obvious shortfall, so one way that has been proven to revitalize the economy has been a jobs program. 
 
Here is what we must do:

• We need to, switch to 100% renewable energy by 2030, and create thousands of jobs while doing so. Invest exclusively in clean, sustainable energy sources powered by the sun, wind, tides, and Earth’s heat.

• Prepare Oregon for climate change. This will include redesigning not just coastal cities, but the Portland metro area to resist specific, model-predicted environmental destabilization based on area.

• Make our energy production a public utility since private companies have proven to be irresponsible, exploitative, and dangerous. 

• Redesign roads to increase safety while maintaining traffic flow via road diets, installation of roundabouts, and machine learning traffic signals.

• Invest in making all existing American homes more energy-efficient. For every dollar invested in energy efficiency technologies, like weatherization and efficient light bulbs, customers can enjoy up to four dollars in savings on their energy bill.

• Pass an aggressive buyback program to replace all gas automobiles with electric cars to solve the “last mile problem” during the transition to more advanced transit infrastructure.

• Utilize kinetic energy capture technology for walkways in heavy foot traffic areas; populated cities can offset their extremely high energy demand by utilizing this existing kinetic energy, which is otherwise wasted.

• Build electric vehicle charging stations. In a country where nearly 30 percent of carbon pollution emissions come from the transportation sector, it is imperative that we end our dependence on gasoline.

• Build high-speed, modern, safe, zero-emission passenger and cargo rail as a blueprint for a much larger nationwide plan, serving long-distance riders as well as local routes in urban areas. Invest enough in this project that the rail system actually outperforms car travel.

• Aggressively reforest all rural land not designated as “prime farmland” with native flora. We must do our best to increase the natural habitat for so many displaced creatures so their population can return closer to a more natural level.

• Completely eliminate public transit fares.

• Update and modernize the energy grid. Some of our grid infrastructures have not been updated since it was first built in the 1920s and 1930s. Technology development in clean energy resources and electric grid improvements have enabled “smart” technologies, programs, and policies to create a safer, more sustainable energy system.

• Ban the procurement of fossil fuels, including coal, natural gas, and oil. While in turn assisting workers that would be displaced by this change with some free at the point of service job retraining program or a basic income to prevent working families from suffering during this switch.

• End all exports of fossil fuels, and end imports in Oregon completely as soon as sufficient green grid technology exists to produce a base load that meets basic energy needs. 

• Ban the transport of fossil fuels. This includes ending the use of all pipelines routed through the State of Oregon.

• Rezone major metropolises, prioritizing mixed high- and medium-density residential development with access to transit, ample green space, and minimum carbon footprint.

• Pass stringent energy- and footprint-efficiency requirements for all new commercial and residential construction.

• Mandate that new parks and other public land do not use harmful invasive species when adding greenery to these public spaces.

• Create an environmental and climate justice plan that recognizes the heightened public health risks faced by low-income and minority communities. 

• Hold energy and fossil fuel companies financially accountable for the environmental and public health damage their industries have done, including but not limited to damage from fracking, mountaintop removal, and offshore drilling. 

• Invest in solar energy and put money back in the pockets of consumers. I will introduce or co-sponsor a similar law to the Low Income Solar Act for Oregon to increase low-income families’ access to solar energy by making it more affordable for people who own their own homes and incentivize access to community solar projects.

• Invest in the further development of tidal capture, wind, and battery storage technology to supplement massive recent strides in solar energy capture.

• Protect and restore public lands by promoting natural resource conservation and habitat preservation.

• Eliminate global carbon emissions by 2030 while transforming our economy from companies putting money over the wellbeing of our planet to sustainable universal employment.

• Guarantee a job as a right to every person on Oregon's soil.

• A new Child Development Act, which guarantees free, high-quality, public childcare for all Americans and a thriving wage for childcare workers.

• Pass an infrastructure bill, which will create more than 150 thousand public sector jobs by investing in our crumbling infrastructure.

• ​All of these massive changes will ensure a future for our children to have a world where they will not have to worry about an increasingly destructive planet but instead of one where the effects they have on each other will be minimal. The ramifications for this, if we do not take these necessary acts, will deprive future generations of just that, a future. This is why my campaign slogan has always been "A future for all."