I like the Green New Deal at the moment. The idea of transitioning to an environmentally sustainable economy that stays within global boundaries while providing jobs and prosperity - all sounds pretty good.
However, I’m not really aware of all the details, and I know there are critiques of it, and I’d like to read up on those.
They make some good points about it on this episode of NovaraFM:
Coalfield communities built our wealth and influence at great cost. We are owed new clean energy jobs and the infrastructure to create them.
โ Lisa Nandy, Yes, we need climate action; but it needs to be rooted in peopleโs daily reality
The so-called โgreen new dealโ is willing to create hope, but is giving space to companies, corporations and governments dedicated to exploiting and destroying nature. โ About the climate strike and the dark sides of the โgreen new dealโ
In contrast to the failed neoliberal attempt to address rising CO2 levels by creating a market for carbon credits, the GND puts forward a green [[Keynesianism]] that places public job creation and enhanced social welfare at the center of its decarbonization strategy.
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