“[FDR] began his New Deal with nothing but a determination to ‘wage a war against the emergency.’ He also believed in experiments: Try it and see. His program changed shape with time, and putting all the elements in place — work relief, new banking regulations, worker protections, unemployment insurance and guaranteed pensions — took years…

“The greatest challenge for advocates of a Green New Deal is to persuade voters that an unprecedented national effort is both necessary and affordable. The right kind of program can be both. Americans increasingly see climate mitigation as a patriotic duty, as they should. Done well, a Green New Deal, like the one that inspired it, can bring them together and help their country succeed.”
Bloomberg

“A green way forward will now cost far less than even the optimists imagined a decade ago… US electric bills broke a decadelong rising trend and started falling in 2015. Better still, as costs continue to crash, job creation has exploded. Renewable energy industries in the US employed 4 million people by 2016, according to the Environmental Defense Fund — far more than the coal industry… Solar is now the cheapest form of new electricity on the planet. No subsidies needed.”
Buzzfeed

Critics of the plan write, “if you’re keeping score at home, the Green New Deal now involves a federal job guarantee, the right to unionize, liberal trade and monopoly policies, and universal housing and health care… I’m a big fan of universal housing and health care. But at some point, we have to grapple with the fact that a solution to climate change will require the support of people who may not be ready to join the democratic socialist revolution.”
Vox

Supporters of the plan counter that “its inclusion of damn near every item on progressives’ policy wish list — is actually one of its most politicallypragmatic features… One of the biggest obstacles to major congressional action on climate change has been that, while virtually every Democratic interest group sees climate change as a problem, relatively few see it as their top problem…

“AOC’s decision to append a wide variety of progressive goals — each with its own influential constituency — to her climate plan is tactically sound: If the entire Democratic agenda is rebranded as the ‘Green New Deal,’ a future Democratic government will be less likely to ignore the central importance of climate sustainability to all of its other policy goals.”
New York Magazine

Some are concerned that the plan “excludes nuclear energy from the proposed mix. If it were ever actually attempted nationally, it would [actually] increase greenhouse gas emissions — just as a similar effort did in Vermont… every time anti-nuclear climate campaigners succeed in closing a nuclear plant, whether in California, Germany, or Vermont, the burning of fossil fuels, and carbon emissions, go up.”
Forbes