AOC claims video of flooded NY subway is result of Americans taking 'orders ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has claimed a viral video showing a flooded NY subway station is the result of Americans taking 'orders from fossil fuel execs.'

The firebrand Democrat, 31, claimed that her Green New Deal was being sidelined by corporate elites who would 'make you swim to work.'  

Thunder storms brought flash flooding to the city this week with footage showing New Yorkers wading through filthy waist deep water at a Bronx subway station.

AOC - who is from the Bronx - responded to the videos on Twitter, mocking her critics by writing in their voice: 'The Green New Deal, which is a blueprint to create millions of good jobs rebuilding infrastructure to stem climate change & protect vulnerable communities, is unrealistic.'

'Instead we will do the adult thing, which is take orders from fossil fuel execs and make you swim to work,' she continued. 

The Congresswoman's ambitious Green New Deal sets out bold targets to reduce green house gas emissions and ban fossil fuels to prevent a 'climate crisis.'

Slammed by Republicans, critics say AOC's policy proposal makes sweeping assumptions about what has caused this 'climate emergency,' including corporate greed and 'racial injustice.' 

Biden announced in January that the United States would rejoin the 2015 Paris Agreement to fight climate change, and has promised to put the country on track to net-zero emissions by 2050 - a much later deadline than the Green New Deal's.

AOC and her allies believe net-zero by 2050 is not enough to tackle the problem.

However, critics say that even to achieve net-zero by the mid century will require a total overhaul of the economy at a colossal cost to the taxpayer with potentially negligible improvements to the climate. 

The NYC subway system often floods when there is heavy rain, however many scientists theorise that stormy weather has become more common due to climate change.

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