My own raw and personal opinion, after having read books from Green New Deal, Great Reset promoters like "Covid-19: The Great Reset", by Klaus Schwab (head of World Economic Forum) and Thierry Malleret or Value(s): Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney (former head of UK central bank) I read the "environmental policies" as nothing really environmental, by points:

- the western world is in decline, mostly for self-inflicted damage, since the actual situation is irrecoverable, the game is lost, a new global war like WWI or WWII can't be done, then overturn the table creating a new society forcing others who still depend on western tech to follow is a way to "reset" the game;

- to do so an excuse is needed and seen the actual climate changes and level of pollution it's easy to choose that as an excuse, a true fact, depicted as solvable in a way that do not really solve anything but sound credible to public eyes;

- since the French Revolution the world instead of being led by classic aristocracy (witch means by who detain the military power) is led by economy so by economist.

Why the green new deal is not green in the sense of spring grass green but more in the sense of dollar-green and stereotypical toxic waste spills from rusty barrels? Because all publicized today, from the ONU New Urban Agenda to the Green Deal itself is partially and marginally about the environment and much more about a Chinese-like society, smart cities, drone delivery of industrial ultra-processed food, no travels except for very few, only public transportation, ... just read the classic https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s... and try to see what emerge.

EVs? it's clear and clearly stated here and there that they can't be like actual cars, only few will get EVs like actual cars, most will get "glorified golf carts" [1] most others will live in "smart cities" designed like SK Goshiwon or JP Capsule Hotels, depending on public services because they'll can't afford the price of a "new" real car but "fun and be distracting enough" to keep those mass of population calm. Heat pumps? Ok, for new homes they are effective to reduce night/no/not-enough p.v. production time for heating a house or producing hot water, with p.v. productions they are needed mostly only to cool a home, without modern home + p.v. are just ways to consume less electricity at a significant price and peoples aren't much pushed for environmental reasons but for artificially skyrocketed prices by speculation of the same people who publicly sell the Green New Deal.

To be clear:

- politically I'm on the left side of the spectrum, the REAL left side

- I'm an environmentalist concerned by actual climate change

- I've built my new well-insulated home, with domestic p.v.

- I do not own an e.v. simply because it's not green at all, and economically it's still more expensive than modern EU diesel, in the future when diesel here will be a 4 euros per liter than will be cheap and I hope it can be integrated in the house micro-grid so I'll buy an e.v.

Just remember a thing: economist like those who drive our countries these days are the new generation of the same who have laid the foundations of devastating II half of 1800 wars and WWI and WWII. How "environmentally concerned" they can be?

[1]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vny5/glorified-electric-go...

https://www.motorious.com/articles/features-3/uk-eliminating...

various trends toward cars-as-a-service, leasing etc