{"id":48069,"date":"2019-08-28T08:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48069"},"modified":"2019-08-28T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:14:20","slug":"what-my-friends-on-the-left-need-to-know-about-the-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48069","title":{"rendered":"What My Friends on the Left Need to Know About the Green New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/what-my-friends-left-need-know-about-green-new-deal\">What My Friends on the Left Need to Know About the Green New Deal<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Files\/WYSIWYG\/blog\/10293\/MG_0826.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNowhere has our public discourse failed us more egregiously than on the environment and climate change,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/inconvenient-truth-about-green-new-deal\">I wrote<\/a>&nbsp;last year while reviewing the first sketches of a proposed Green New Deal. It\u2019s since become a buzzword, but until now it remained only vaguely defined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has significantly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/berniesanders.com\/issues\/the-green-new-deal\/\">upped the ante<\/a>. Sanders\u2019 Green New Deal proposal is very specific, earmarking $16 trillion over 10 years to initiatives from \u201creaching 100 percent renewable energy for electricity and transportation by 2030\u201d to reauthorizing the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps to \u201ccoming together in a truly inclusive movement that prioritizes young people, workers, indigenous peoples, communities of color, and other historically marginalized groups.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opening to the Sanders campaign\u2019s new page on the Green New Deal encapsulates the candidate\u2019s view of the issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The climate crisis is not only the single greatest challenge facing our country; it is also our single greatest opportunity to build a more just and equitable future, but we must act immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanders and I wouldn\u2019t disagree that his plan represents a sea change in the way our government, society, and economy interact. The plan is gigantic. I want to fill page after page with factoids about how big it is, but just a few will suffice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The proposal\u2019s total cost is $16 trillion, over 20 times the cost of the New Deal (in today\u2019s dollars, just under $700 billion).<\/li><li>If the proposal succeeded in creating 20 million jobs, it would raise the percentage of the workforce employed by the government to around a third, double what it is now.<\/li><li>Remember that goal of 100 percent renewables by 2030? We\u2019re only at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renewable_energy_in_the_United_States\">15 percent<\/a>&nbsp;now, meaning almost the entire U.S. energy system would be overhauled.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What My Friends on the Left Need to Know About the Green New Deal \u201cNowhere has our public discourse failed us more egregiously than on the environment and climate change,\u201d&nbsp;I wrote&nbsp;last year while reviewing the first sketches of a proposed Green New Deal. It\u2019s since become a buzzword, but until now it remained only vaguely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[23346,23347,5434,25811,674],"class_list":["post-48069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-aier","tag-american-institute-for-economic-research","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-max-gulker","tag-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48070,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48069\/revisions\/48070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}