Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has unveiled a transformative Green New Deal climate action plan that aims to eliminate fossil fuel use in the United States entirely by 2050.

Labeling the increasingly apparent effects of climate change “a national emergency,” Sanders seeks to direct a “$16.3 trillion public investment toward these efforts, in line with the mobilization of resources made during the New Deal and WWII, but with an explicit choice to include black, indigenous and other minority communities who were systematically excluded in the past.”

The Sanders plan would completely decarbonize the country’s electrical grid and transportation systems with 100% renewable electricity by 2030, according to The New York Times, with full decarbonization for the American economy by 2050. That effort includes removing some $15 billion in annual subsidies for the fossil fuel industries, forcing fossil fuel companies to “pay for their pollution,” and “scaling back military spending on the global oil supply.” To help provide a so-called “just transition” for current fossil fuel workers, according to The New York Times, the plan would see the federal government provide five years of unemployment insurance, a wage guarantee, housing assistance, and job training to “any displaced worker” in the industry.

In announcing the plan, Sanders told The New York Times,  “I have seven grandchildren, and I’m going to be damned if I’m going to leave them a planet that is unhealthy and uninhabitable.”

How does Sanders plan stack up against the rival Democratic candidates? Evan Weber, political director for the Sunrise Movement, a key backer of the Green New Deal movement, told The Intercept,“It definitely is the biggest and boldest plan and vision out there,” adding, “both in the sheer scale of it and also in a lot of the mechanisms for achieving that scale, that really seem like [Sanders is] pushing the boundaries of how American society currently is structured.”

One area where the plan is remarkably and surprisingly thin? Land-use reform. 

While much of the recent political conversation regarding the Green New Deal has revolved around the necessary and interrelated issues of decarbonization and electrification, presidential candidates have yet to convincingly address the widely-understood need for land-use reform as it relates to urbanization, density, and public transportation expansion.