Green New Deal

Who proposed the Green New Deal?

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts

Mitch McConnell

President Obama

A Think Tank

Can it be made into law?

No. A resolution cannot be made into a law, it needs to be drafted as a bill.

Yes. The President can sign it into law as it is.

What is the goal of the resolution?

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to avoid the planet's destruction due to climate change.

To gain complete governmental control over the United States

To have fun!

To remove small family farms

Does the bill just cover climate change?

Yes, duh!

No, it also contains a plan to reduce social inequality while we switch from oil and gas to renewable energy. Including universal healthcare and availability of higher education.

No. It also contains a plan to ship all the cows to Canada.

No it also contains plans for new electric cars.

What does it want to change?

To stop everyone from consuming meat, making everyone buy a Tesla, and stopping all trains.

To switch to clean energy

To get all the country's electricity from clean energy sources, upgrading every building to be energy efficient, investing in electric vehicles.

Disable the oil and gas industry

What will it cost?

As Trump said it will cost "100 trillion dollars"

It's not clear how much it will cost yet, but just switching over the source of electricity will cost $476 billion, though the benefits are over $2 trillion dollars.

Nothing, these changes won't require any extra money.

Everyone will have to pay up to $100,000 in taxes to pay for these changes.

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