The Case for the Green New Deal by Ann Pettifor; On Fire by Naomi Klein – review

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Two excellent, inspiring calls for a new politics as the only solution to our climate catastrophe

ike many political neologisms, “Green New Deal” became de rigueur so fast that it had multiple variations, passionate disciples, critics and endless namechecks before anyone had said definitively what it meant. The “why” was clear: after decades of the business-as-usual answer to the climate crisis, the environmental movement was more or less united in its conviction that more profound change was needed than awareness-raising and intergovernmental target setting.

 

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If you are still pushing the Green New Deal in December of 2019, you must be anti-nuke or critically uninformed about how the current version of the GND puts a moratorium on nuclear. If you have kept up with the energy needs stats, ruling out nuclear is severely irresponsible...

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