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Only the federal government wields the power to lead a national mobilization that can decarbonize the economy fast enough.

— Rhiana Gunn-Wright All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (2020)

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The GND's vision of power is one of redistribution: from private to public, from employer to worker, from the historically advantaged to the historically disadvantaged.

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (2020)

Fossil fuel impunity requires intense concentrations of economic and political power among corporations and the wealthy who profit from them.

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (2020)

GND policy works to shape markets and create demand so that low-carbon and no-carbon goods become the default, rather than the alternative to carbon-intensive goods.

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The Green New Deal is designed, first and foremost, to address the climate crisis at the speed, scale, and scope required to prevent catastrophic levels of warming.

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The Green New Deal is a new policy vision-one that will guide government and society through the biggest task in modern history: decarbonizing our global economy within the next ten to twenty years.

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