While filming Zahran Mamdani in New York City on Tuesday, Batoul Hassan was supposed to be burning. The municipal candidate-a 33-year-old member of the State Council-was up to opinion polls, and within hours of Andrew Como defeated the first preference in the democratic elementary elections.
But Hassan’s souls have been hindered by record temperatures. In Crown Heights, where the field leader was in the Mamdani campaign, the heat index rose to the triple numbers.
She said, “I could not think of anything but heat.” “It was very dangerous.”
Early on Tuesday morning, Hassan visited a polling site in public schools, as the elderly workers gathered without air conditioning. The city’s election council sent on paper fans, but they were not identical to heat.
If Mamdani is elected, this school can be modified with air conditioning and green spaces to reduce temperatures as part of Green schools planOr it can be turned into a center of flexibility for shelter societies amid harsh weather events.
“Seeing the failure of the total infrastructure on the day of the election day emphasized the risks of what is happening with the climate crisis and the importance of the elections,” Hassan, who took a leave from her daily function at the Climate and Society Institute to the Climate and Society Institute to the Climate Institute and its left community to the Climate and Society Institute.
The Green Schools Plan in Mamdani is just one of its plans to reduce carbon emissions and enhance environmental justice. Hassan said that if the elected mayor is elected, his plans for New York City will make the population “greatly safer” than the harsh weather.
But the democratic socialism, which was approved by the group Sunrise group led by the youth, the group led by students and the group of climate led by students TreegeHe did not put the climate crisis in the center of his campaign, and instead he chooses unnecessarily focused on cost issues. Supporters say this model can help build popular support for climate policies.
“The climate and the quality of life are not separate concerns,” Mamdani The nation said In April. “They are, in fact, one.”
Over the past two decades, Democrats have increased climate. But often, its proposed plans were technocrats. Carbon taxes, for example, can be complex in an inconceivable way, which makes them difficult to obtain popular support. “They can be economically retreat, as people of the working class suffer from an additional cost,” Hassan said.
Recently, Joe Biden has been associated with climate plans with green industrial policy and plans to enhance employment. But even these projects may take years to influence concrete change, critics say. As president, for example, Biden has achieved historical climatic investments in the IRA law. But its green incentives have benefited from the wealthy in an impartially proportional, and the creation of job opportunities remains invisible for most people throughout the country. He found one poll Only a quarter The Americans felt that the Irish Republican army benefited from them.
Hassan said: “Now with Trump, we see the dangers of the Irish Republican army, as there is a real difficulty in strengthening enough political support to defend these climate policy achievements.”
Gustavo Gertello, co -chair of the New York City branch of Democratic Socialism in America, which supported Mamdani’s campaign, said Mamdani “learned from some mistakes” in the Biden administration. for him Housing planFor example, it aims to reduce the pollution of the planet heating by enhancing density, but the promise to sign it is to freeze the rent.
This pledge can ensure that the population is not pricing from New York City and forced to move to more Carbon suburbsHassan said that the angel is from passing the costs of energy efficiency or the installation of air conditioning for tenants, and preventing displacement.
Likewise, Mamdani’s main transfer goal was to make buses faster and free, which may enhance the ride and inhibit the use of intensive carbon cars.
“Public transport is one of the greatest gifts that we have to take in the climate crisis,” Mamdani He said at the February Dean Forum.
Gertello said that Biden in the Irish Republican Army was focused only on promoting public transport. He said this was a lost opportunity to reduce emissions and also fuel costs for Americans.
“We need to expand mass transportation to fight the climate crisis, which was not a priority for the Democratic Foundation,” said Gordlo, an electrician for a day. “But we also need to expand it because we want to improve people’s lives now.”
As a member of the Assembly in New York, Mamdani supported explicit green policies. He was a major defender of increasing the production of renewable energy owned by the public. Efforts aimed at helping New York “rise to the dream of our country as a climate leader”, He said In 2022.
Also fought Building fossil fuels. Besides the climate focuses with the efforts to maintain low energy bills, constantly opposition Kim Frazkik, director of the San Energy Non -Climate Project, said.
“His increasing political impact is a clear victory for societies demanding a fair transition: renewable power, democratic control and relief from energy costs.”
Progressive cities like New York are often climate leaders. But if they priced working people, the wealthy only get the benefits of their green policies, as supporters of Mamdani says.
By drafting popular climate policies, the democratic candidate also builds a base of the New York resident who will defend these plans in facing threats from the Trump administration, they say.
“The residents of New York want a affordable city, clean and green schools, fast and free buses, and freezing rent,” said Daniel Golden, a co -chair of the Social Socialist Social Democratic Action in New York City. “But most importantly, the New York residents want a future – where they can live and prosper in New York.”