Because of the underlying mutual links between global warming hysteria and the COVID-19 panic, it is no wonder that green groups would make statements like this. Greening the world for Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy, is the red meat of the pandemic
It is not the Green New Deal architects who are confused about the immediate future and its prognosis. Rather, the confused are those Americans who laugh and shrug it off as a radical pipe-dream. They will be sorry that they didn't pay better attention.
From the beginning of the Great Panic of 2020, TN has warned of its tight connection and common endgame to climate alarmism. Biden reinforces this by calling it an 'opportunity' to enact Green New Deal, and this is the heart of the matter, not saving lives.
The United Nations is at the heart of the Green New Deal and is also controlling the global pandemic through the World Health Organization. It's no surprise that Greens are trying to leverage their cause at the same time.
Green New Deal spending is counterproductive , if not outright damaging, to economic recovery, but it will usher in a new era of control over resources, production and consumption. The GND is an illusion with no substance.
As predictable as the sun coming up in the East, open calls have already emerged for stimulus money to be spent on Green New Deal initiatives and alternative energy. This malinvestment will not help recovery.
The UN says that "A green economy implies the decoupling of resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth". This indicates a total ignorance the economic reality that resources are absolutely necessary for any economic activity whatsoever.
Forget old-fashioned Central Bank stimulus as experienced during the 2008 financial crisis. Watch for the entire 2020 narrative to be hijacked by Technocrats who want resuscitate the global economy by spending taxpayer money on Green New Deal programs.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez felt it necessary to re-read the entire Green New Deal resolution on the House floor because too many Republicans just didn't understand what it was. Now everyone is accountable to reject it.
This article by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen reveals that their Green New Deal essentially relies on 'tech optimism', that is, betting on future technology not yet invented or discovered, to achieve their goals.