Bria Vinaite Explains the Green New Deal

Before you vote in the midterm elections, Bria Vinaite wants you to understand the ideas behind a Green New Deal.
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We get it: It’s hard to talk about climate change. Thinking about rising global temperatures and sea levels, mass wildlife extinction, and extreme weather is terrifying—which is why we asked The Florida Project’s Bria Vinaite to help. In our final installment in Vogue’s Now You Know video series, explaining the frequently complicated and very pressing concepts at play in the 2018 midterm elections, Vinaite invited us to come over and talk about some of the ideas behind the Green New Deal, a policy initiative from environmental activists and politicians who want to stop pretending climate change isn’t happening and start preparing for it.

There isn’t just one Green New Deal yet. For now, it’s a platform position that some candidates are taking to indicate that they want the American government to devote the country to preparing for climate change as fully as Franklin Delano Roosevelt once did to reinvigorating the economy after the Great Depression. (As Vinaite reminds us, FDR’s New Deal gave us programs like social security and minimum wage.) Let Vinaite fill you in on the rest of the details—and make sure to find out if your candidates support a Green New Deal when you head to the polls. If they don’t, maybe you can ask why.

Our theory is: You can’t vote for candidates if you don’t understand the positions they’re running on. So now you know. See you on November 6.

For more information on a Green New Deal:
Grist.org
Data for Progress
Open Democracy

Bria Vinaite in Miu Miu dress and jacket, Zizi Donohoe slippers, Alison Lou earring and Dezso earring; Stevie Howell robe
Preen by Thornton Bregazzi pillow and blanket

Director: Sara Shaw
Fashion Editor: Anny Choi
Story Editor: Bridget Read
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Manicure: Megumi Yamamoto
1st AC: Carey Hu
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Sound: Kurt Seery
Set Designer: Rosie Turnbull
Editor: Evan Allan

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