No one criticizing the Green New Deal — not a single person — has an alternative plan for transitioning the American energy economy in the timeframe climatologists say we must. Nobody. If you don't think it's realistic, put out something else. What should be done instead?

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) February 8, 2019

Exactly. All anyone else has is Obama-style worthless hopey-changey bullshit. Opposition to the GND evinces a huge misunderstanding of the calamity we’re about to find ourselves in. I support the plan 100%. In fact, I don’t think it goes nearly far enough and I would roughly double it in size and scope.

More on that later, if I feel like writing it.

The Green New Deal is expensive and pie in the sky?

Amount spent in Iraq: $3 trillion.

Amount spent in Afghanistan: $1 trillion.

Amount spent in past 20 years on “defense,” separate of that: $15 trillion

Now that’s expensive. Yeah, the GND would not be cheap. The alternative is far worse. How anyone with any children particularly would fail to support it or something similar is a mystery to me as you’re basically condemning them to a hellish existence.

Anyway, the GND is not realistic. It’s not designed to be! It’s supposed to shift the conversation, and it’s doing that. Are you talking about it?

Then here’s a clue: it’s working.

And then realize it’s not expensive at all:

It's funny how a politician proposes a plan which would cause a massive economic boom for a decade and people are "nawww, we can't do that." https://t.co/231DEkQtOS

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) February 7, 2019