Green New Deal: Addressing Economic Inequity and Climate Change

This research paper discusses the Green New Deal, a stimulus package addressing economic inequity and climate change. It explores the composition of the Green New Deal, solutions to the climate crisis, and its impact on equality, job creation, and green infrastructure.

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Green New Deal
Green New Deal is a suggested stimulus package that targets at addressing economic inequity
and climatic change. This proposal involves a set of public work projects and economic and
social reforms implemented in response to the great depression by President Franklin Roosevelt.
Green New Deal combines modern ideas like resource efficiency and renewable energy with the
economic approach of Roosevelt (Aşıcı and Bünül).
Composition of Green New Deal
A Green New Deal was created in 2006 by the Green New Deal Task Force as a strategy for
100% renewable, clean energy by 2030 using single-payer healthcare, free college, a jobs
guarantee, a carbon tax, and a concentration of applying for public programs. The Green New
Deal since 2006 has been included in numerous platforms of Green Party candidates like
gubernatorial campaigns of Hawie Hawkins in 2018, 2014, and 2010 (Hockett and Gunn-
Wright). In late 2018, numerous perceptions emerged as to whether the committee would be
specifically tasked with implementing a Green Ned Deal or assign climate dedicated committee
with granted powers. The chairs of the incoming committee namely Peter DeFazio and Frank
Pallone directed preference for handling issues in the House of Infrastructure and Transportation
Committee and House of Commerce and Energy Committee (Guertler).

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The major adoptions proposed by the Green New Deal programs and policies such as coastal
shoreline hardening, transportation fleet electrification, reformed zoning and construction
standards, targeted taxes and tax incentives. The Green New Deal resolution demand for
national mobilization of 10 years whose major objectives include working with ranchers and
farmers collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gases and emissions, promoting massive growth in
clean manufacturing, renovating transportation systems, upgrading all existing structures,
upgrading and building the smart power and accessible electricity, upgrading and repairing
infrastructure, attaining 100% power demand, providing everyone with adequate and affordable
housing, and guaranteeing jobs with sustainable wage in United State (Barbier, How is the
Global Green New Deal going?).
The solution to Climate Crisis
Green New Deal pushes for transitioning the US to use zero-emission sources of energy and %
renewable energy, including investment into the high-speed rail system and electric cars, and
also the implementation of social carbon cost that has been a section of administration plan of
Obama for addressing climatic change within ten years. The resolution calls for national
mobilization for 10 years to whose major objectives would be upgrading and repairing the
infrastructure in the US by ensuring that every bill in infrastructure is considered through
Congress addresses change in climate, reducing the risks posed by impacts of environment,
guaranteeing universal clean water access, and eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and
pollution. All these considerations involved in repairing and upgrading of infrastructure seek to
provide a structural solution to the climate crisis (Barbier, How to make the next Green New
Deal work).

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Green New Deal also responds to the climate crisis by encouraging building resilient structures
against disasters related to climate change such as adverse weather conditions through providing
investments and leveraging funding for strategies and projects that are a community defined.
This proposal also demands the upgrade of all existing structures and buildings in the US as well
as the construction of new structures and buildings to attain durability, comfort, affordability,
water efficiency, and optimum energy efficiency. The deal also promotes international services,
funding, products, expertise, and technological exchange with the objective of ensuring that the
US is the international leader on action against climate change and to assist other states to attain
the Green New Deal. The deal proposes cleaning up of abandoned sites and present hazardous
waste to ensure sustainability and economic development on those sites (Lyne).
Green New Deal proposes on the minimizing pollution and removal of greenhouse gases from
the atmosphere by restoring the natural ecosystem through proven low-technology solutions that
promote the storage of soil carbon like afforestation and land preservation. The last structural
solution to the climate crisis is the repairing transportation system in the US to eliminate
greenhouse gas emission and pollution from the sector of transportation and also technological
feasibility by including investments in high-speed rail, accessible, affordable, and clean public
transit, also zero-emission vehicle manufacturing and infrastructure (Schwartzman).
Issues of Equality
The adoption of Green New Deal in the United States addresses the issues of equality by
proposing the provision of all people of the United States with access to nature, affordable,
healthy, clean air, and clean water, and also economic security, adequate, safe, and affordable
housing, and high-quality health care without any discrimination based on social status or
background. The deal also ensures a commercial environment where each businessperson is free

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from unfair domination and competition by international or domestic monopolies. This calls for
equality among all the businesspeople both domestic and international (Xiaoxi).
The deal provides that all agreements and treaties should be honoured when acquiring the
informed, prior, and free consent of indigenous individuals for every decision that affects
indigenous individual and their customary territories, with indigenous individuals and enforcing
and protecting the land rights and sovereignty of indigenous individuals without any
discrimination. The new deal also advocates for enforcement and strengthening wage and hour
standards, antidiscrimination, workplace safety and health, and labour across all sectors,
industries, and employers (Kesting).
Job Creation
Green New Deal mobilization creates union-jobs of high quality that pay prevailing wages,
guarantees benefit and wage parity for workers affected by the transition, offers advancement
and training opportunities, and hires local workers. The deal also proposes the provision of high-
quality education, training, and resources to the people of US for them to equally and fully
participate in the mobilization of Green New Deal. The deals proposes leveraging and provision
in a manner that the public receives suitable returns in investment and ownership stakes,
supporting policies, technical expertise, and adequate capital (including through public
financing, public banks, and community grants) and other forms of assistance to local
government agencies, State, Federal, organization, and communities (Whyte).
The new deal also guarantees a job with retirement security, paid vacation, enough medical and
family leave, and a family-sustaining wage to all individuals of the US. The policy also assists in
job creation by ensuring a commercial environment where every business individual if free from

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unfair domination and competition by international and domestic monopolies (Barbier, How to
make the next Green New Deal work).
Investment in Green Infrastructure
The resolution calls for national mobilization for 10 years to whose major objectives would be
upgrading and repairing the infrastructure in the US by ensuring that every bill in infrastructure
is considered through Congress addresses change in climate, reducing the risks posed by impacts
of environment, guaranteeing universal clean water access, and eliminating greenhouse gas
emissions and pollution. The new deal promotes encouraging massive growth in clean
manufacturing in the US and removal of greenhouse gas and pollution from industry and
manufacturing as much as in technological feasible, including through investing in the existing
industry and manufacturing and in the expansion of the manufacture of renewable energy
(Xiaoxi).
The new deal also advocates repairing transportation system in the US to eliminate greenhouse
gas emission and pollution from the sector of transportation and also technological feasibility by
including investments in high-speed rail, accessible, affordable, and clean public transit, also
zero-emission vehicle manufacturing and infrastructure (Hockett and Gunn-Wright).
CONCLUSION
This research paper on the Green New Deal discusses the structural remedy and solution to the
climate crisis, composition of Green New Deal, elements of the Green New Deal that address
issues of equality, job creation, and green infrastructure. Green New Deal is a suggested stimulus
package that targets addressing economic inequity and climatic change in the United States. The
major adoptions proposed by the Green New Deal programs and policies such as coastal

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shoreline hardening, transportation fleet electrification, reformed zoning and construction
standards, targeted taxes and tax incentives.

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