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Paper Instructions:
At the start of 2019, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives and Senate, respectively, known as the “Green New Deal”. The Green New Deal is a framework for addressing the challenge of global climate change, but it involves far more than simply cutting greenhouse gas emissions. 
The Green New Deal takes its name from the programs created by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression, known as the “New Deal”, that were designed to protect the poor and unemployed while stimulating the US economy and preventing another Great Depression from ever occurring again. Similar to the New Deal, the Green New Deal aims to mobilize the entire population of the US to create a new, more environmentally sustainable, economy. 
The resolution proposes a framework for addressing global climate change that ties together efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with efforts to increase economic justice. Not only would the Green New Deal have the US reduce carbon emissions 60% by 2030, and reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, but it also includes elements such as housing and jobs guarantees. 
The argument of those in favor of the Green New Deal is that, in order for efforts to combat global climate change to be successful, economic prosperity must be addressed at the same time as protecting the environment. Their critics argue that doing all of this would require too much time and effort, and that addressing global climate change is so urgent that we should reduce emissions first, and worry about the economic impacts later. 
Combining what you’ve learned in this course about human impacts on the environment and sustainability with research you will do on the Green New Deal and the political and economic impacts of it, your assignment is to write a paper arguing for or against the approach outlined in the Green New Deal. You should begin by reading the full text of the resolution introduced to Congress (available online at https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text), and then by review the history of environmental legislation in the US, the economics of protecting the environment, and the concept of environmental justice. From there, you are free to bring in any other resources you might find to bolster your argument, but be sure to cite your sources! (For any evidence, idea, or opinion that is not your own that you include in your paper, you must record at the end of the paper where you brought in material from, otherwise this is considered PLAGIARISM and you will be docked points for ethics.) 
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paper should be a minimum of 5 pages, not including references, double-spaced.