The green New Deal: No plan like this has been seen since “The John Galt Plan”

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“The Green New Deal resolution a 10-year plan to mobilize every aspect of American society at a scale not seen since World War 2 to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and create economic prosperity for all. It will:

 Move America to 100% clean and renewable energy
 Create millions of family supporting-wage, union jobs
 Ensure a just transition for all communities and workers to ensure economic security for people and communities that have historically relied on fossil fuel industries
 Ensure justice and equity for frontline communities by prioritizing investment, training, climate and community resiliency, economic and environmental benefits in these communities.
 Build on FDR’s second bill of rights by guaranteeing:
A job with a family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security
High-quality education, including higher education and trade schools
Clean air and water and access to nature
Healthy food
High-quality health care
Safe, affordable, adequate housing
Economic environment free of monopolies
Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work

National mobilization our economy through 14 infrastructure and industrial projects. Every project strives to remove greenhouse gas emissions and pollution from every sector of our economy:
o Build infrastructure to create resiliency against climate change-related disasters
o Repair and upgrade U.S. infrastructure. ASCE estimates this is $4.6 trillion at minimum.
o Meet 100% of power demand through clean and renewable energy sources
o Build energy-efficient, distributed smart grids and ensure affordable access to electricity
o Upgrade or replace every building in US for state-of-the-art energy efficiency
o Massively expand clean manufacturing (like solar panel factories, wind turbine factories, battery and storage manufacturing, energy efficient manufacturing components) and remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing
o Work with farmers and ranchers to create a sustainable, pollution and greenhouse gas free, food system that ensures universal access to healthy food and expands independent family farming
o Totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high- speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle
o Mitigate long-term health effects of climate change and pollution
o Remove greenhouse gases from our atmosphere and pollution through afforestation, preservation, and other methods of restoring our natural
ecosystems
o Restore all our damaged and threatened ecosystems
o Clean up all the existing hazardous waste sites and abandoned sites o Identify new emission sources and create solutions to eliminate those
emissions
o Make the US the leader in addressing climate change and share our
technology, expertise and products with the rest of the world to bring
about a global Green New Deal.”
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And a response:
https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/07/...
SOURCE URL: https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/07/ten-most-insane-requirements-green-new-deal/


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    Posted by CircuitGuy 5 years, 2 months ago
    This is so wrong-headed, conflating protecting the environment, which I see as property-rights issue, with all kinds of excuses for gov't to intrude. Global warming is one of the biggest problems of our time, and I don't see it being solved through government intrusiveness, i.e. gov't programs to upgrade buildings and setting hard limits on greenhouse gases. I am concerned it's a double-whammy that won't address climate change and will actually manage to create new problems as big as climate change. I suspect it's a marketing ploy, a concept car never meant to be built. Maybe this is the way policy must be sold. When libertarians show their crazy concept cars, people dismiss them as kooks.
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    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 5 years, 2 months ago
      You are gona WISH it was warming Circuit...view my earth cycles of disaster series.

      Sure could use your imput on how to protect our electronic infrastructure under the conditions presented in this series.
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