The Green New Deal, explained
What’s actually in the Green New Deal?
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The Green New Deal is an ambitious plan to fight the effects of climate change. It’s the only American plan that actually acknowledges the size of the impending crisis. And it contains some difficult truths that we might not want to hear.
Read the Green New Deal resolution here: https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/Resolution%20on%20a%20Green%20New%20Deal.pdf
For additional context I recommend this piece by Vox’s Umair Irfan on the United Nations climate report, where the world’s best climatologists tell us how urgent of a problem this is: https://www.vox.com/2018/10/8/17948832/climate-change-global-warming-un-ipcc-report
This piece from Vox’s David Roberts, shows that world leaders really aren’t taking this urgency seriously. https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fossil-fuels
Finally, you should read this explainer of the Green New Deal, followed by this story (in list form) by Hannah Northey:
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060106501
I also enjoyed this piece, from Kate Aronoff of the Intercept, that imagines a world after the Green New Deal: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/05/green-new-deal-proposal-impacts/
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July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
If you want to read about the Green New Deal in the lens of the 2020 election, I recommend this piece explaining Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s proposal: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/4/18527458/climate-change-jay-inslee-for-president-2020
Inslee has the most ambitious climate proposals; it is, as Vox's David Roberts writes, the Green New Deal translated into policy.
For more from the rest of the 2020 democratic field, check out the Vox policy guide: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/23/18304657/vox-guide-2020-democratic-policy-primary#Climate%20change
– Alvin
@na0h1t0n2
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
without energy how you construct?
@YagGaf
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
This is communism
@mikez5518
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
It is not our fault for pollution we are forced to live like this as all technology for a cleaner planet is suppressed from us. And let’s put the main cause of pollution in the atmosphere where it belongs and that is air travel. The amount of heat and gasses produced by the engines is astronomical. There are at any given time over 15,000 planes in the air, that’s not including military aircraft. Just for a boing 747 to warm up and take off uses over 5000 gallons of fuel.
@baronghede2365
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
I don't support the "Green New Deal"…i believe green energy; should transition over time…
@alicezamberlan6037
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
If we want to figure out how to get there, we actually need to decide who is gonna pay for it.
@ANTICOMwestcoast
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
Thankfully it’ll never go in the US
@MAGAMike827
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
Visiting from 2025- how'd this green new scam work out? Bet you want your gas stove back…oh yeah by the way, the same people who pushed this nonsense are burning electric vehicles
@740x2
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
The Green New Steal
@charlespoteracke2896
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
It’s far higher taxes for regular Americans. War will happen if you don’t back down. There will be no mercy.
@MarkNevels-m8k
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
The world is always changing. Keep thinkin u can change the planet while china is building coal burning power plants at rate of 1 per week.
@TheRPM87
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
Green new scam
@Andre-ct4fq
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
Arguments like this one are not appealing to right wing people for a simple reason: It is taking up a left wing issue, and addresses any problem with it with other left wing solutions. How convenient, a conservative person might think!
Now don’t get me wrong, I do think climate change is very important, and I do enjoy living in a country that does have most of those social policies mentioned in the video. My point is just that you need to change the argument if you don’t want to automatically repel half of the population. Then your argument becomes unwinnable. Instead, climate activist should concentrate on making the issue attractive to conservatives. In the end, it’s many conservatives who like living close to nature, who enjoy activities like hunting and fishing, and who, well, like to preserve things. And nature is the oldest and most basic thing one could preserve. I am actually convinced that the instincts we have that make us want to protect eg. endangered species are conservatives by nature. This is not an unwinnable fight, if we stop trying to sell all of our own policies as the solution, and instead start also making a conservative case for protecting the environment, to swing those who don’t yet agree with us.
@Boofi-quat
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
Rest in pieces.
You silly billys.
@AlexaAnastasio-z1i
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
i cant wait for AOC to be president one day
@ercanyilmaz8108
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
When I was kid, I saw a nice toy at the toy store. My parents asked the price of that toy to the show owner and he asked a very high price. Since it was too expansive, my parents decided to not buy it. How much I want it, it didn't matter at all. This is also the same case for many people I think. The heat pump is for example too expansive. You can love it, but that does not matter if you can't afford it.
@Fortnite_Frost_Clips
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
GREEN NEW SCAM
@ChristianpoegadeningYT
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
Now that we are at 1.5 we are really going into some of the most decisive moments in this fight and yet the future still looks really grim.
@alexanautumnmaddie
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
This is never gonna work. Not that it’s a bad plan more like we won’t ever have it in action because “it’s not happening”
@SteohenTujwr
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
I'm an electrical engineer. I'm curious why solar companies are ending equal KW pay once they have so much of a state on solar ? I'm curious why wind turbines are used when they have 20% efficiency and use power to turn so the props don't bend. I'm curious why solar panels and lithium batteries are scientifically proven to be more harmful to the environment than natural gas, yet those are the favored method and gas is somehow harmful. ? Seems a bit more logical to conclude that electric companies are really the ones pushing for "the green new deal" since they are the one 100% profiting from it.
@markmarquez7348
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
To turn our country into communism
@fzx_37
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
Don’t put your hope in this planet. Put your hope in Jesus. He will take care of you. Always.
@xyzct
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
Ah, the good old Hegalian dialectic.
Climate change is the fabricated emergency.
The Green New Deal (which is Agenda 2030 in drag) is the "solution."
@AmericansElite
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
green new scam
@StewieGriffin
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
93Trillion debt crisis if this is approved
@marlonperez4290
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
This sounds like a hoax
@chickencoupeking1010
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
The Green New Deal, is the ultimate form of political control over citizens.
@jessepeek3594
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
The most hilarious part is the premise that the original "New Deal" was a good thing. It wasn't. Rampant inflation, government takeovers, market stagnation, loss of innovation, etc. The original New Deal prolonged the Great Depression. Only WWII ended it, and that was just for the USA and Canada bc we were the only developed countries left afterwards that weren't bombed out and whose empires had grown as a result. Liberalism truly is a mental disease.
@samueldesbois3632
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
Socialism would also be a step forward for society. The Regina Manifesto is a great example of how to overcome capitalism
@99banuka
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 am
Great video. So what are your solutions to incorporate the rest of the devoloping world. Because maybe you have forgotten America is not the world. And the rest of the world wouldn't hinder their growth and starve their people for climate change.
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