Saikat Chakrabarti,
Representative Alexandria
Occasionally Coherent's
chief of staff,
admitted that the
true motivation
behind introducing
the Green New Deal
is to overhaul the
“entire economy.”
Chakrabarti said
climate change was NOT
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s
top priority in proposing
the Green New Deal,
during a meeting with
Washington governor
Jay Inslee.
“The interesting thing
about the Green New Deal,
is it wasn’t originally
a climate thing at all,”
Chakrabarti told Inslee’s
climate director,
Sam Ricketts,
according to a
Washington Post
reporter attending
the meeting.
“Do you guys think
of it as a climate thing?”
"Because we really
think of it as a
how-do-you-change
-the-entire-economy thing,”
Chakrabarti added.
The Green New Deal,
proposed by Ocasio-Cortez
and Senator Ed Markey
(D., Mass.),
would transition
the U.S. economy
away from fossil fuels
within ten years
while providing
a federal jobs and
healthcare guarantee.
The proposal is not feasible,
but if it was, the "Green Ordeal"
would cost up to $100 trillion
in new U.S. government
spending over ten years.
Even if
100% implemented
in the next ten years,
a U.S. "Green Ordeal"
would not be enough
to stop the rise of
GLOBAL greenhouse
gas emissions.