For people who are actually interested in seeing (broadly) what is in the Green New Deal CNN has produced an outline.
Green New Deal - What is it?
Most of it is just a general platform filled with traditional Democrat perspectives and some new ones. Much of it has nothing to do with "Green". Just going throuh it I can tell much of it would have a hard time passing through a Democrat caucus - let alone a full blown vote in Congress. You can think of it as a liberal version of Newt Gingrich's Contract with America that largely provided alot of red meat to voters but didn't see much actual implementation.
However, I can see some parts of it going through:
- The smart energy grid has been a bi-partisan infrastructure pursuit for years....even W wanted it
- Cheaper drugs (was is that green?) is also more and more bi-partisan. In fact thats low handing fruit for anyone wanting to put a dent in the deficit.
- You could require more energy efficient materials be used in construction going forward (just like the big, controversial switch to spiral light bulbs). That would be a compromise on requiring existing structures be retrofitted with green materials.
I think most of the renewable energy goals are already well under way. The auto industry is aggressively moving towards EV and renwable power is rapidly becoming cheaper than fossil fuels....it already is depending on your geography. But I would favor the government "picking winners and losers" once again to speed that up. It certainly helped get us this far.
