With what Naomi Klein calls “galloping momentum,” the “Green New Deal” promoted by newly elected U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appears to be forging a political pathway for solving all of the ills of society and the planet in one fell swoop. It would give a House Select Committee “a mandate that connects the dots between energy, transportation, housing and construction, as well as health care, living wages, a jobs guarantee” and more. But to critics even on the left, it is just political theater, since “everyone knows” a program of that scope cannot be funded without a massive redistribution of wealth and slashing of other programs (notably the military), which is not politically feasible.

Source: This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work by Ellen Brown — YES! Magazine