The world will end in 12 years.

That’s the message from U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York.

At a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, Ocasio-Cortez, made that grim statement about global warming.

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?” Ocasio-Cortez said. “This is the war — this is our World War II.”

Ocasio-Cortez is actually a breath of fresh from the Democrat Party. She readily admits that she is a socialist (and likely a communist). She wants to reshape America.

To stop the end of the planet, Americans need to enact gigantic tax increases – probably in the form of carbon taxes, according to the freshman congresswoman.

Like any card-carrying socialist, she wants to tax the rich. In fact, she would like to see a 70 percent income tax on anyone who makes $10 million a year or more. She favors confiscation.

“So after you make $10 million in one year, your dollars after that start to get progressively taxed at a much higher rate. And really, what that is … at what level are we just living in excess?” she asked.

She added, “What kind of a society do we want to live in … do we want to have these folks with helipads in the same city, in the same society as people who are working 80-hour weeks and can’t feed their kids?”

Ocasio-Cortez is a self-described Democratic socialist.

There are several in Congress and almost all are Democrats.

In 12 years, when the world hasn’t ended, Ocasio-Cortez will explain that countries other than America made enough progress to forestall the inevitable destruction.

Her solution is confiscation of wealth from rich people and send it overseas to the rest of the world.

How did she get elected in America?