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 Bernie's Green New Deal - this CLIMATE EMERGENCY requires the mobilization made during the 1940's New Deal and WW2.”

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That money would then be spent across many different clean energy and climate adaptation programs:

  • $9 trillion investment in green jobs over 10 years. Including employment in sustainable agriculture and a Civilian Conservation Corps. Detailed plans for how farming and conservation can help the nation cut emissions and store more carbon in its soils while protecting small farms and supporting well-paid jobs.
  • $3 trillion to help people and businesses buy new electric cars and trucks
  • $2 trillion in grants for energy efficiency and weatherization
  • $1.52 trillion to deploy renewable energy
  • $900 billion on public transport and high-speed rail. Put trillions toward public transport with a goal of increasing ridership 65 percent by 2030. 
  • $852 billion for energy storage
  • $526 billion for an underground high-voltage direct current power transmission network
  • $1.3 trillion for workers currently in the fossil fuel and carbon intensive industries to find work with strong benefits and a living wage. The Federal government would also provide five years of unemployment insurance, a wage guarantee, housing assistance and job training to “any displaced worker” in the fossil fuel industry.
  • $162 billion set aside for coastal communities under threat
  • $200 billion for the United Nations Green Climate Fund to help other countries reduce their emissions
  • $85 billion on a national network of EV charging stations
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  • $18 billion for firefighters to combat wildfires
  • $40 billion for a climate justice resiliency fund for under-resourced groups (minority and low-income populations) like Native Americans, people with disabilities, and the elderly to prepare for climate change
  • $6.4 trillion in revenue from selling clean energy via power marketing authorities, which will be administered by publicly owned utilities -- between 2023 and 2035
  • $2.3 trillion from income taxes from the 20 million new jobs created under the plan.
  • $1.2 trillion from reducing military expenses currently used to protect global energy interests including protecting oil shipping routes.
  • $3.1 trillion would be generated from “making the fossil fuel industry pay for their pollution” through Litigation against polluters, fees, and taxes.
  • eliminating $15 billion in  fossil fuel subsidies;
  • $3.3 trillion

  • 13.5 trillion

TOTAL
  • $16.3 13.0 trillion

To pay for itself over 15 years. And according to Bernie, the price tag is a bargain compared to the business-as-usual climate trajectory.
 “Economists estimate that if we do not take action, we will lose $34.5 trillion in economic activity by the end of the century” .

  • meeting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's goal of 100% renewable energy for electricity and transportation by 2030;
  • cutting domestic emissions by 71% over that period;
  • reduce emissions in the non-China global south by 36% by 2030 – the total equivalent of reducing our domestic emissions by 161%.”
  • prioritizing what activists call a "just transition" for fossil fuel workers who would be dislocated during the transition.
  • Ban fracking, mountaintop removal coal mining and imports and exports of fossil fuels

The spending would go toward researching energy storage and electric vehicles, supporting small farms and developing ways to “make our plastic more sustainable through advanced chemistry.”

It will “end unemployment” based on the sheer number of workers it will require; it would create 20 million jobs. These jobs are closely tied to creating the green infrastructure required to reach 100 percent renewable energy for electricity and transportation and fully decarbonize.
The jobs:

  • Manufacturing, to build energy-efficient cars and boats
  • Energy efficiency retrofitting of homes
  • Renewable power plants to expand wind and solar power
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Engineering, research, and development
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It calls for a new version of the the Civilian Conservation Corps, (a Franklin D. Roosevelt-era public works program that put young unemployed men in the Great Depression to work doing forest management, flood control, conservation projects, and the development of state and national parks, forests, and historic sites).

"Bernie will declare a national emergency on climate change and take immediate, large-scale action to reverse its effects," the plan reads. "This is an existential threat and we will do whatever it takes to confront it."

 

 

 

 

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