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From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.

The Green New Deal. You've probably heard about it by now. It's the mega climate and energy initiative

spearheaded by New York's newest radical Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The plan aims to fundamentally

transform how Americans produce energy, harvest crops, raise livestock, build homes, drive cars, and manufacture goods.

Essentially, the way we all live our lives.

All within 10 years.

Acosio Cortez says that she and her liberal colleagues are calling for a national, industrial,

economic mobilization plan not seen since World War II.

Even the solutions that we have considered big and bold are nowhere near the scale of the actual problem that climate change presents to us, to our country, and to the world.

The plan is ambitious to say the least, and in the week or so that the text of the resolution has been

available, even the mainstream media has found it flawed.

The economist called the proposal deeply unsurious.

The Washington Post editorial board labeled it as fantasy.

New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote that the Green New Deal represents the greatest

centralization of power in the hands of the Washington elite in our history.

And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the plan as the Green Dream, or whatever they call it.

But guess what?

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