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The necessary idealism of the Green New Deal

The story behind the Green New Deal’s meteoric rise: How twelve young activists forced a bold idea into the mainstream of the Democratic Party. What Green New Dealers can learn from the first New Deal. Here are 7 reasons Democrats won’t pass a Green New Deal. Activists have a plan to keep the Senate from nuking the Green New Deal. Politicians need to be clear: Do they take climate change seriously or not? Noah Millman on the case for green nationalism. California high-speed rail and the American infrastructure tragedy, explained: We can’t have a Green New Deal if we can’t figure out how to execute on anything. Donald Trump is president and anything is possible — even the necessary idealism of the Green New Deal. If not the Green New Deal, then what? The Green New Deal is what realistic environmental policy looks like. The Green New Deal isn’t too expensive — doing nothing is. How the next president could declare a national emergency over climate change.

A huge climate change movement led by teenage girls is sweeping Europe — and it’s coming to the US next. The climate kids are coming: With a Green New Deal and Student Strikes for Climate, will young people save us yet?