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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	1018
Proposal	Platform Housekeeping Amendment Chapter III, Ecological Sustainability
Presenter	Platform Committee
Floor Manager	Tony Ndege
Phase	Closed - Adopted
Discussion	06-01-2020 - 06-28-2020
Voting	06-29-2020 - 07-05-2020
Presens Quorum	Two Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens Quorum	Two Thirds of Yes and No Votes

Background

Using the Platform Committee’s power to make housekeeping amendments to the Platform in order to correct typos, grammar and outdated or incorrect information, PlatCom proposes the following changes to Section III: Ecological Sustainability, as specified. Since these are only minor housekeeping changes, they have been grouped to ease the work load on the Platform Committee and the National Committee that ten different proposals would involve.

Proposal

Proposed first housekeeping change: OMIT THE QUOTATION MARKS AT THE END OF PARAGRAPH e. IT SHOULD READ:
Chapter III: Ecological Sustainability
. . . . . . . .
A.    Climate Change
Our Position
e. . . . charge polluters for the damage they have created.

Proposed second housekeeping change: CORRECT THE SECTION LETTERING SO THAT D. NUCLEAR ISSUES IS CORRECTLY LETTERED AS C. NUCLEAR ISSUES. IT SHOULD READ:
Chapter III: Ecological Sustainability
C, Nuclear Issues

Proposed third housekeeping change: HYPHENATE CROSS-COMMUTERS IN PARAGRAPH e UNDER MASS TRANSIT AND USE A COMMA AFTER IT. IT SHOULD READ:
Chapter III: Ecological Sustainability
    D. Transportation
          2. Mass Transit
                e. . . . . . with attention paid to cross-commuting, the practice of people commuting to a place where they could and should live.

Proposed fourth housekeeping change: ADD THE WORD “TO” AS SHOWN BELOW (IN CAPS) SO THE SENTENCE READS CORRECTLY:
Chapter III: Ecological Sustainability
E. Zero Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
            12. Clean up depleted uranium contamination from testing ranges and battlefields, and provide generously TO compensate veterans and civilians who have been sickened by depleted uranium exposure.

Proposed fifth housekeeping change: DROP THE UNNECESSARY “THE” BEFORE “ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE” IN #8 UNDER RURAL LAND USE. IT SHOULD READ:
Chapter III: Ecological Sustainability
G. Land Use
Rural Land Use
8. Preserve and expand rural land use patterns that promote open space, healthy ecosystems, wildlife corridors and ecologically sustainable agriculture. . . .

Proposed sixth housekeeping change: CORRECT “MALL-SCALE FARMERS” TO READ “SMALL-SCALE FARMERS” AS SHOWN BELOW:
Chapter III: Ecological Sustainability
G. Land Use
Rural Land Use
11. . . . . Favor policies that promote small-scale farmers and ranchers over large-scale corporate agriculture and ranching.

Proposed seventh housekeeping change: ADD “OF” TO THE FIRST SENTENCE IN #14 AS SHOWN BELOW (IN CAPS):
Chapter III: Ecological Sustainability
G. Land Use
Public Lands
14. Oppose the sale of any portion OF our national parks, . . .

Proposed eighth housekeeping change: DROP THE “S” IN “WATERS” IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE – “PROMOTE STORM WATER TECHNOLOGIES THAT DETAIN, TREAT, FILTRATE, AND USE STORM WATERS NEAR WHERE IT IS COLLECTED.” IT SHOULD READ:
Chapter III: Ecological Sustainability
H. Water
4. . . . . . . .
e. Promote storm water technologies that detain, treat, filtrate, and use storm water near where it is collected.

Proposed ninth housekeeping change: DROP THE WORD “SPECIES” AND ADD AN “S” TO THE WORD “CHEMICAL” TO IMPROVE THE SENTENCE WHICH NOW READS: “REGULATIONS ARE NEEDED OR NEED IMPROVEMENT, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR ARSENIC, BACTERIA, VIRUSES, PROTOZOA, FLUORIDATION CHEMICAL SPECIES SUCH AS FLUORIDE AND FLUOROSILICATE, WATER DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS . . .”
Chapter III: Ecological Sustainability
H. Water
5. . . . . Regulations are needed or need improvement, for example, for arsenic, bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fluoridation chemicals such as fluoride and fluorosilicate, water disinfection by-products . . .

Proposed tenth housekeeping change: IN SECTION H. WATER, THE LIST OF ACTIONS UNDER #10 SHOULD USE LETTERS RATHER THAN NUMBERS. THUS IT SHOULD READ:
Chapter III: Ecological Sustainability
H. Water
10. It is imperative that we protect the waters and shorelines of the Great Lakes, and Greens strongly urge the following actions:
a. Allocate funds to help upgrade and phase out aging . . .
b. Prohibit municipalities from dumping sewage into . . .
c. Set clear and enforceable deadlines and standards for reducing nutrient . . .
d. Devise and implement a plan to stop the release of flame retardants and other . . .
e. Immediately decommission and shut down the aging Enbridge Line 5 . . .
f. Prevent the opening of a new sulfide mining district in northern . . .
g. Require ocean-going freighters to filter or treat their ballast water . . .
h. Close the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to prevent Asian carp from . . .
i. Stop the dumping of toxins by petroleum refineries into the Great Lakes . . .
j. Have the Federal government buy and protect more undeveloped areas of . . .
k. Encourage the planting of buffer strips of vegetation to act as natural filters . . .

Resources

Approval of this proposal will amend the 2020 GPUS Platform

Contact(s):
Platfform Committee Co-chairs
Bruce Hinksforth
Tim Willard
platcom@gp.org

References

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