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

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.

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.

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