*The Green New Deal Is What Our Planet Has Been Waiting For*

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"The Green New Deal Is What Our Planet Has Been Waiting For," Opinion, By Robert Hockett, The Hill, Feb. 7, 2019.

Since she took office in January, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) Green New Deal initiative has generated much popular excitement. It's no surprise since it is the single most ambitious and potentially transformative national project since Franklin Roosevelt’s original New Deal and World War II mobilizations of the early-mid-20th century.
The Green New Deal is animated by two great ambitions. It is “Green” in its aim to modernize and decarbonize the U.S. economy. It's focused on stopping the poisoning of our environment, subsidizing decaying infrastructure and sacrificing poor and working class communities to false wealth that benefits only a few.



It is a “New Deal” in its working on a scale not seen since the New Deal of the 1930s — an historic national reconstruction that put scores of millions of Americans back into productive and high-paying jobs and transformed our economy into the greatest engine of production and broadly shared prosperity the world had ever known.

Every project in the Green New Deal’s portfolio will invest in workers, businesses, communities and thus the entire nation. The plan calls for and enables America’s whole society to participate in a single great national aim: the expeditious transition to a forward-looking society of broad opportunity, equal justice, productive prosperity and environmental sustainability.

The Green New Deal comprises a full menu of mutually complementary and critically necessary projects. All will contribute to the restoration of a just, prosperous and sustainable economy that treats all Americans as valued members of our society and treats our environment as our home. These products include, among others:

1. Building “smart,” energy-efficient national power grids to transition to renewable power, including energy storage solutions and technologies and improvements that overlap with all of the other Green New Deal projects.
2. Overhauling America’s transportation systems to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation from transportation.
3. Replacing carbon-emitting electricity generation with wind, solar and other renewables. Also expanding existing renewable power sources and deploying new production and storage capacity to meet 100 percent of national power demand through renewable sources.
4. Upgrading residential and industrial buildings for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety, creating millions of new high-wage jobs in every community and fostering ownership by communities...con't.

READ MORE, https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/428932-the-green-new-deal-is-what-our-planet-has-been-waiting-for
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- NPR, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline, Feb. 7, 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/07/691997301/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-releases-green-new-deal-outline

- Common Dreams, With Major Party Backing, Ocasio-Cortez & Markey Unveil Green New Deal Outlining 'WWII Scale Transformation' Feb. 7, 2019, https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/07/major-party-backing-ocasio-cortez-and-markey-unveil-green-new-deal-outlining-wwii

[Cetacea]

1. It has the potential to create unity and a common purpose

The next few years are projected to be hotter than last year. I think the deadly heat domes and wildfires of last spring and summer, combined with the new reports, woke up a lot of people.
Thanks for sharing!

[appalachiablue]

5. Well said, unity and common purpose, or else! The last

4 years have been the hottest recorded, the next ones will be uglier..

[saidsimplesimon]

2. I am impressed.

These are positions I can support.

[DemocracyMouse]

3. About time! A city on a (green) hill... Just like John Winthrop called for and FDR proved was possib

[Duppers]

4. K & R