Green New Deal – Full Language – www.gp.org

Here’s the visionary “Green New Deal” of the Green Party, apparently drafted sometime in 2016 and which has attracted some support. The centerpiece of this program is the transition to a 100% clean, renewable energy base. These ideas are generating some comment.

The plan would eliminate “non-essential individual means of transport,” and electrify everything. There is an urgent need to increase the generation of offshore wind energy, which has been slowed by an “over-reliance on market forces.”

A huge public jobs program would be funded by the federal government at a cost estimated to be $28.6 billion to create 1 million new public jobs. In addition, the military budget would be cut at least in half, allowing service men and women to be redeployed to their own communities.

A carbon fee will generate revenue and also reflect the costs to the environment of fossil fuels, and there will be increased taxes on the wealthy and higher estate taxes.