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Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
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The environmental crisis under way is unique in human history. It is a true existential crisis. Those alive today will decide the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, the leaders of the most powerful state in human history are dedicating themselves with passion to destroying the prospects for organized human life. At the same time, there is a solution at hand, which is the Green New Deal. Putting meat on the bones of the Green New Deal starts with a single simple idea: we have to absolutely stop burning fossil fuels to produce energy within the next 30 years at most; and we have to do this in a way that also supports rising living standards and expanding opportunities for working people and the poor throughout the world. This version of a Green New Deal program is, in fact, entirely realistic in terms of its purely economic and technical features. The real question is whether it is politically feasible. Chomsky and Pollin examine how we can build the political force to make a global Green New Deal a reality.
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| Publisher | Verso (22 Sept. 2020) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 192 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 178873985X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1788739856 |
| Dimensions | 14.02 x 1.27 x 21.11 cm |
by Akaash Rishi
Keeping up with Noam inspires me to be a better writer. I look forward to earning from my own Royalties so I can read more and reason with his authorship over time to see how his research methodology arrived at Environmental Law as a the precipice for changing our thinking about business and education.
by View from nowhere
Chomsky is the greatest voice in the wilderness that is American politics. The fact that Trump has received so much airtime and admiration whilst Chomsky is ignored by the mainstream press, highlights the stranglehold that money and big business hold over the american media, and the warped priorities of the public.
This is a good short read, in an interview format, the conversational nature of the book make it enjoyable and accessable. Each questions is answered both Chomsky and Robert Polling, professor of Economic and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The topics discussed are fairly general, the nature of climate change (it should be called global heating), capitalism and the current causes of the crisis. Details of the global new deal and how political mobilisation can be generated.
The diagnosis of the current crisis, is well understood by most people now, however it never hurts to hear the story again, as it’s hard to make the seriousness of the situation resonate in the mind. This is especially the case, as Chomsky is very good at taking the facts and logically explaining their extreme moral concequences.
The answer to the problem is outlined, even with costings, about clean renewables, energy efficiency, carbon taxes, savings on military spending and fossil fuel subsidies, private funds and we can be hopeful that numbers are realistic and no where near as daunting as you might expect. However it’s the brick wall of ‘political will’ that will be the bigger stumbling block.
I found the discussion about why we can’t shrink our economies out of the problem interesting, we need to grow ourselves out with environmental investments. Also whether we should use nuclear power, how far should political activism go, along with comments about whether the climate issue should be dealt with in tandem with other social issues.
The only criticism, is the fact that this is looked at, as a global solution, however we don’t have a global government to implement it.
As you would expect there are no simple answers however this provides a road map to start from and worth the few hours it takes to read.
by Nogayhan Seymen
Everyone should read Noam Chomsky’s books to learn how the world works. This one specifically to get a sense of the excessive consumptions of the world population that are makibg our world die slowly.
by martina pitekova
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by Vanda Denton
I first came across Chomsky some forty years ago when some of his work was included in the psychology course of my B.Ed at London university. I admired his work then, and even more so now. He has earned the respect of all to, at the very least, listen to his views with an open mind.
Together Pollin and Chomsky offer a realistic solution to the climate crisis, as well as describing the reality of global catastrophic problems being caused by human beings.