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Original question: why do you dislike the Green New DealThe Green New Deal is very misunderstood. It’s become a political tool for both sides and thus a lot of confusion exists around it. So let’s clearly define exactly what it is.After that I am going to dive into why I don’t like it and what my issues with it are. This will be a long one and I hope it can easily show why the GND isn’t any good.The Green New Deal (GND) is not a piece of legislation nor is it a law or bill. It is a resolution. Think of it as a goal list for the Democrats and hopefully the government. It outlines where things should go and that is about it.Here it is from congress directly: https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres109/BILLS-116hres109ih.pdfThe GND lays out specific endpoints likeReform the transportation industry to be 100% greenhouse gas-freeRebuild the US to have “Green” buildingsCreate a more locally based food industryRely 100% on renewable energy in 10 yearsCreate a system where the public has an ownership stake in companies and the economyClose the wage gapEnd wage stagnationClose wage capIncrease life expectancyClean up nature, remove pollutionYou get the point. Now you may notice a few… issues let’s call them.First off this list is kinda dumb. It’s like a highschool wrote down all the problems in the world. It’s mostly obvious things that 90% of people can agree on. Like ya, let's end wage stagnation, live longer, and breathe clean air- who disagrees.The problem is that the GND offers no path to achieving any of these. These are all very present and discussed issues. If AOC has the solution than awesome, she needs to show it.In truth, she does not have a solution. She has the ambiguous “pie in the sky” goals of any young politician but no path to getting there. These are significant goals and just 1 of them would take years to accomplish.But again this is a resolution and its purpose is just to make these things a goal. So let’s just dive into the specifics.1: EconomicsOn page 11 at the top (lines 1–3) it statesproviding and leveraging, in a way that ensures that the public receives appropriate ownership stakesThis is a sneaky little call to socialism I suspect. The goal would be community ownership over this newly created economy. This then likely translates to state or federal ownership and thus a much larger government.A lot of the Green New Deals calls for increased regulation everywhere. The answer to everything seems to be more government oversight. I don’t think the highly inefficient US government is the answer to anything.More importantly, the GND calls for unionization (pages 10, 12, and 13) and collective bargaining on a national scale. This would lead to increased wages which is great! But companies can only spend so much on employees. If they raise wages that means they cannot afford to keep everyone on the payroll. Companies are not operating at a 60% profit margin- many have margins of 2% or 10%.So we will see increased unemployment rates which mean increased unemployment support on the state and fed- a state and fed financially bogged down in radically rebuilding the entire nation.We are already dealing with mechanization and going about unionizing everyone is a great way to push companies further towards automation.Also if we are radically remaking everything into a more socialist model who pays taxes? This would kill the rich and middle class. You are going to demand companies pay their people more, upgrade their locations to be “green”, and you are going to tax them more.Unions increase unemployment: Some Notes on the Economics of Unions: Part IIMechanization: Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines2: 100% renewableLet’s say we all agreed to embark on this GND. The primary goal is going “green” and that’s great. Let’s break this down a bitIndustry: 1/4th of Carbon emissions are produced via production and industry. A Toyota Prius is not good for the environment really at all. First is still partially uses gas the electric part relies on carbon-based electricity to charge its batteries. More importantly, though the complex production of these massive batteries produces tons of waste and carbon emissions. Over its lifespan, a Prius may actually be worse for the environment overall.Transportation: As stated most “hybrids” are not great for the environment and the same is true for Teslas and all-electric cars. The mass production of these cars has a serious impact. Not to mention it will take over a decade to phase out gas cars unless the government foots the bill for 300 million cars- which they cannot possibly do.Electricity: This is a bigger problem. Solar panels and wind turbines seem great and they are fine but there are serious issues hereThey do not produce enough energy to power the US, no matter how many we buildWind and sunlight are inconsistent and we do not have the technology to store excess power produced during sunny or windy days to hold us over during cloudy or still days.Solar panel and wind turbine production is harmful to the environmentBuilding: Page 8, section E statesupgrading all existing buildings in the United States and building new buildings to achieve maximum energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability, including through electrification;The cost of this is INSANE. If we took every dollar from every rich person we wouldn’t even be close. Not to mention the INSANE cost in materials and the carbon emissions put out from nationwide construction.To do this is 10 years is silly. We’d have a better chance of building a death star. We certainly need to upgrade infrastructure but this takes decades and is an ongoing project. You need to free market to do this for you- no government can rebuild the whole nation in such a short timeframe.See the issues with all this? If you build enough electric cars or solar panels you hurt the environment. Even then it changes little because the electricity we rely on to power cars still has to come largely from carbon-based fuels.Current renewable energy methods cannot replace existing ones and the only realistic way to go green is nuclear power, and the GND forbids nuclear power.Not to mention the cost in metals, man-hours, and wealth is insane. Lastly consider nobody wants to live green. We talk about it and all but we want long baths, fun cars, nice houses, Xbox Ones, new movies, good restaurants, and new shoes.Prius: The Hidden Environmental Impacts of Hybrid CarsSolar panels cost: Environmental Impacts of Solar PowerSolar isn’t enough: Reliability of Renewable Energy: SOLAR.3: Pay gapThere is no pay gap between men and women. Men and women make the same money for the same work.The statistic that women make 75 cents compared to a man making 1 dollar is bogus. This is just average income overall- it does not measure 2 people in the same position.Women by and large chose to work in professions that do not pay as much. Men dominate STEM for instance which is very high paying while women dominate the humanities- something that pays terrible.There are virtually no cases of a company illegally paying women less than men. It’s illegal to do that already so I have no idea what AOC plans to do.The feminist theory is that we need more female CEOs to level the pay gap. But becoming CEO means you have no life for 2 decades as you work 80 hours a week to master your craft. I’ve seen feminists call the obstacles of becoming CEO “sexist gatekeeping” and this is dumb. Getting the best and highest paying job means there will be challenges and obstacles.In the same position working the same hours studies show men and women earn about the same- sometimes there is a 1 cent difference. In some fields where women are needed (like STEM) they outearn men. In other fields where men are needed (like social work) men outearn women.Harvard Study: "Gender Wage Gap" Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women | John PhelanGender Pay Gap Statistics for 2020 | PayScale.To make this a goal of the government is stupid- plain and simple.See my problem with all this?It sets unrealistic goals (that are already goals) while outlining no way to get there. It’s such a radical set of changes that the odds of us pulling it off are slim to none.This is a nation of 325 million people. You are talking about radically reforming employment, transportation, agriculture, energy, basic economics, laws, taxes, and everything else in the most complex nation on earth.It would be a disaster. It would be insanely expensive and even more difficult. We would end up with high unemployment, insane debt, collapsing companies, a rise in food cost, a rise in energy costs, a massively expanded government, and that is the best-case scenario.I am all for a better future but to do that you go issue by issue and line by line. We start with “clean transportation” and focus on that for a few years at least. This will take time and it will take technology we do not yet have. This is a process and we need to go about it carefully and with regard to how it affects people.The whole GND is a disaster. It ignores fundamental economics and reality for this hyper-political “dream”. It was written by climate scientists and pushed by a young junior congresswoman who was once a bartender and thinks that unemployment rates are based on available jobs.Bartenders that do not understand basic unemployment statistics are not great at reorganizing complex economies, just saying.

Impose a maximum of 8 years for members of the House and Senate. The power is too corrupting. Lifelong politicians are too easily purchased by the lobbying groups and corporations.No political donations. Elections are restricted to federal campaign funds.The President cannot commit troops to a conflict for more than 60 days without the consent of Congress.The Green New Deal from the Green Party, not AOC, would be implemented immediately.What the Green New Deal Will DoRight now, our federal government subsidizes the rich agribusiness corporations and the oil, mining, nuclear, coal and timber giants at the expense of small farmers, small business and our children’s environment. We spend tens of billions every year moving our economy in the wrong direction. The Green New Deal will instead redirect that money to the real job creators who make our communities healthier, sustainable and secure at the same time.With the passage and implementation of this program, We the People will:Invest in green business by providing grants and low-interest loans to grow green businesses and cooperatives, with an emphasis on small, locally based companies that keep the wealth created by local labor circulating in the community rather than being drained off to enrich absentee investors.Move to 100% clean energy by 2030: Prioritizing green research by redirecting research funds from fossil fuels and other dead-end industries toward research in wind, solar and geothermal. we will invest in research in sustainable, nontoxic materials and closed-loop cycles that eliminate waste and pollution, as well as organic agriculture, permaculture and sustainable forestry.Provide green jobs by enacting the Full-Employment Program, which will directly provide 16 million jobs in sustainable energy and energy-efficiency retrofitting, mass transit and “complete streets” that promote safe bike and pedestrian traffic, regional food systems based on sustainable organic agriculture and clean manufacturing.The Green New Deal includes an Economic Bill of Rights, which ensures all citizens the right to employment through a Full-Employment Program that will create 20 million jobs by implementing a nationally funded, but locally controlled direct-employment initiative. We will replace unemployment offices with local employment offices offering public sector jobs that are “stored” in job banks in order to take up any slack in private sector employment.100% Clean Energy by 2030The centerpiece of the Green New Deal is a transition to 100% clean energy by 2030.These scientists believe it is technologically doable:[5] Fossil fuels could be phased out worldwide in a decade, says new study[6] CBC: Canadian Broadcast Corporation - Clean disruption? Stanford group plans for 100% green-energy future - The Solutions ProjectThe climate crisis is a serious threat to the survival of humanity and life on Earth. To prevent catastrophe, we need a WWII-scale mobilization transitioning our country and the world to a sustainable economy with 100% clean, renewable energy, public transit, sustainable agriculture and conservation.Already, tens of millions of people have been turned into climate refugees while hundreds of thousands die annually from air pollution, heat waves, drought-based food shortages, epidemics, storms and other lethal impacts of climate change and reliance on fossil fuels. And as climate change worsens across the globe, wars fought over access to food, water and land will become commonplace.Historically, talks aimed at stopping global warming have centered on the goal of staying below a 2 degrees Celsius rise in average temperature. The major “victory” at COP 21 in Paris was that the industrial polluting nations such as the United States agreed with the rest of the world that the existing global warming-cap target of 2°C would lead to catastrophic change.The recent report by the International Panel on Climate Change warned that the world needs to keep the increase in global warming below 1.5°C and said we had 12 years to take dramatic worldwide action. Timing is running out for such action. The Green New Deal may be our last, best hope.Green New Deal5. Immediate closing of for profit prisons. Drug related offenders released.6. Federal training program for the police, bodycams, and independent investigations of police shootings and brutality. There must be accountability. Black lives do matter.7. Decriminalize drugs. People have the right to ingest whatever they want.8. Cut the military budget 50%. It won’t be needed to protect oil reserves anymore since we are moving to green energy. The money saved will be used to nationalize the healthcare system, free college, free housing, free daycare, paid vacations and paid maternity leave.9. Equal rights laws which stop discrimination of pay against women.10. Minimum wage adjusted to a living wage depending on where you live. Rent controls in inflated housing markets.11. Stop foreign aid to Saudi Arabia. Stop coddling them.12. Stop sanctions against North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.

The following people deserve the Post humous (After Death) Bharat Ratna:-ScientistsHomi Bhabha - For his work for Nuclear Energy for IndiaVickram Sarabhai - For his work on SpacePoliticiansNarasimha Rao - For his recovery of the Indian EconomyIndustrialists and PhilanthropistsAditya Kumarmangalam Birla- For the BITS and other educational institutesOther Persons who deserve the Bharat Ratna in my opinion:-Shri Manmohan Singh - For his deft handling of the 1989 Economic CrisisMS Swaminathan - For his Agricultural Reforms and the Green Revolution