Last week at a Capitol Hill news conference Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, and Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, unveiled “the Green New Deal.” It’s comprehensive legislation that would set the goal of “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions” in a decade.

The Green New Deal raises three big issues: Is the United States finally ready to address climate change? And if so, how? And what will be the impacts on Indian Country?