{"id":791,"date":"2019-02-11T17:44:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=791"},"modified":"2019-02-11T17:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:44:14","slug":"the-problem-with-the-green-new-deal-a-deeply-unserious-proposal-to-tackle-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2019\/02\/11\/the-problem-with-the-green-new-deal-a-deeply-unserious-proposal-to-tackle-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with the Green New Deal:  A deeply unserious proposal to tackle climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> What would be the cumulative effects of mandatory, wholesale  decarbonisation of the power-generation sector within ten years? Or of  the mandated retrofitting of every single building in the country? Or the requirement for electric-only vehicles, and the removal of every  single dirty internal combustion engine? Would it really provide  \u201cmillions of good, high-wage jobs\u201d and \u201cprovide unprecedented levels of  prosperity and economic security\u201d for the impoverished\u2014as the resolution  promises\u2014or simply make them poorer? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/democracy-in-america\/2019\/02\/11\/the-problem-with-the-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Economist (opens in a new tab)\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would be the cumulative effects of mandatory, wholesale decarbonisation of the power-generation sector within ten years? Or of the mandated retrofitting of every single building in the country? Or the requirement for electric-only vehicles, and the removal of every single dirty internal combustion engine? Would it really provide \u201cmillions of good, high-wage jobs\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-energy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}