{"id":397295,"date":"2019-02-26T12:55:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T11:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-deal-who-dis\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T11:55:05","slug":"new-deal-who-dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-deal-who-dis\/","title":{"rendered":"New Deal, Who Dis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Green New Deal is everywhere, perhaps in part because it has remained nebulous.\u00a0 Years, cuts and specifics are all over the place depending on who you ask. The U.S. Green Party, for example, has detailed plans<\/a> for what it might mean because they were the first to champion the concept here over the past decade<\/a>, rather than just the past few months.\u00a0 Those plans include decarbonisation of the whole economy by 2030.<\/p>\n

Events this week<\/a> supported by a large number of green NGOs (such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, 350.org<\/a> and Food & Water Watch) seem to be an attempt to clarify the current clamour.\u00a0 Amongst a number of admirable details they have settled on calling for 100% renewable energy by 2035<\/a> (note that this is not the same as total decarbonisation, as it refers only to power generation), and the phase out of fossil powered land transport by 2040.\u00a0 No specifics are given for other emissions sources (such as the fastest growing sector, aviation<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The phrasing for the electricity demand used in all documentation is some variant of \u201cby 2035 or earlier.\u201d \u00a0It is my hope that the use of \u201cor earlier\u201d indicates a willingness to admit that 2035 is too late for any serious target, and has been included to allow for improvement at some nearby point.\u00a0 Because the people who drafted this particular sentence must know that when you give government a range of goals rather than a firm demand they will rise only to meet the easiest interpretation: it will be read as…<\/p>\n

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The Green New Deal is everywhere, perhaps in part because it has remained nebulous.\u00a0 Years, cuts and specifics are all over the place depending on who you ask. The U.S. Green Party, for example, has detailed plans for what it might mean because they were the first to champion the concept here over the past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}