The Green New Deal is a visionary program to designed protect the earth’s climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to unite the necessity for climate protection with the goals of full employment and social justice. It is based on the framework of the New Deal, an agglomeration of programs launched during the 1930s to overcome the Great Depression and maintain a thriving society thereafter. The legacy of that program has continued to inspire Americans for almost a century. In 2018, that manifested in a resolution for a Green New Deal, a collaboration between activists and politicians that drew on the depth and breadth of New Deal programs as applied to climate change and the country’s economic struggles. The Green New Deal intrigued the public and gained wide support. However, it was greeted with heavy politically conservative and other fossil fuel–sponsored pushback. This eventually led to a pared-down endeavor and revised nomenclature in 2020, Build Back Better and the THRIVE Agenda. Though the new legislation promotes some climate protection, it also endorses false solutions, is not adequately funded to reach the necessary climate goals to maintain our world, and offers little to no protection for endangered communities.