All You Need Is a Congress and a Dream
Green New Dealer Edward Markey vows: ‘We will save all of creation by engaging in massive job creation.’
It’s hard to know what to make of the “Green New Deal” put forward last week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Sen. Edward Markey (D., Mass.). The pair’s nonbinding resolution calls for, among many other things, a 10-year plan to meet “100 percent of the power demand of the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources,” and to upgrade “all existing buildings in the United States . . . to achieve maximum energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability.” It also aims to “promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing...