PUBLIC POLICY September 10th 2019

Trouble signing in? What happens when a person has not used all the carbon credits at the end of the week? Additionally, I wasn't a big fan of Mr. Rifkin's name-dropping (ie "so and so read my book and invited me to speak). | Thus, in concert with a CO2 tax would be simple emissions caps, but not for trade. Achieving sustainable societies globally is likely to be a defining challenge of the 21st century.

We need every action possible to bring down emissions, and we need them all now. I learned a lot reading this book, and am impressed by the candor of the message regarding climate change and the imperatives that are our new reality, while making the case for hope for the future of humanity. Theodor Geisel said... To see what your friends thought of this book, The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth. ; the green new deal why the fossil fuel civilization will collapse by 2028, and the bold economic plan to save life on earth. It may be helpful to look at how difficult problems have been addressed in the past. | ", I had a read Mr. Rifkin's book, "The European Dream" a while back, so I was really looking forward to this book. GENERAL CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES The idea is a simple one: in the process of transforming the infrastructure of our societies at the speed and scale that scientists have called for, humanity has a once-in-a-century chance to fix an economic model that is failing the majority of people on multiple fronts. There is also a growing understanding that social and economic injustice must be solved simultaneously.

It deluded [us] with a viciously false paradox: the notion that the sum of many petty struggles was aggregate cooperation. There is an expression: “Always leave something better than the way you found it. ( Log Out /  ECONOMICS, by Gerry Greaves is a retired engineer and the CASSE Chapter Director for Upstate South Carolina. ‧ We need wind and solar power that is widely distributed and, where possible, community-owned, rather than the New Deal’s highly centralized, monopolistic river-damming hydro and fossil-fuel power. In September 2007, as credit was “crunched” and the financial crisis began to unfold, a group of economists and environmentalists, including the future Green party MP Caroline Lucas, met regularly in my small London … It calls for quantitative ecological limits on the throughput of resources so that the market can no longer determine the physical scale of the economy relative to the biosphere. Each chapter examines one facet of racism, the authorial camera alternately zooming in on an episode from Kendi’s life that exemplifies it—e.g., as a teen, he wore light-colored contact lenses, wanting “to be Black but…not…to look Black”—and then panning to the history that informs it (the antebellum hierarchy that valued light skin over dark). We know, thanks to research from the Climate Accountability Institute, that a whopping 71 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions since 1988 can be traced to just one hundred corporate and state fossil-fuel giants, dubbed the “Carbon Majors.” In light of this, there are a variety of “polluter pays” measures that can be taken to ensure that those most responsible for this crisis do the most to underwrite the transition—through legal damages, through higher royalties, and by having their subsidies slashed. I was glad to see that he brought up the issue of stranded assets because I think that is a vital components that construction companies, oil/gas industry, and city leaders aren't taking into account when they think about building out new infrastructure/structures that will quickly become obsolete with our fast-changing world.

In her feisty debut book, Oluo, essayist, blogger, and editor at large at the Establishment magazine, writes from the perspective of a black, queer, middle-class, college-educated woman living in a “white supremacist country.” The daughter of a white single mother, brought up in largely white Seattle, she sees race as “one of the most defining forces” in her life. ), I thought the collection of Rifkin's proposed solutions left too much in the hands of “market forces,” which haven't had a great track record creating more harmonious and equitable futures so far. One problem happens when the author addresses Mark Jacobson’s claim that AltE can provide sufficient energy for poor countries. GENERAL CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES Copyright 2000 - 2019 - Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, New Zealand Deprioritizes Growth to Improve Health and Wellbeing, A Post-COVID Vision: The Full and Sustainable Employment Act. Finally, while the book's subtitle makes it clear the focus is on economics, it lacks a thorough discussion on social inclusion, which is essential when talking about the f. I had a read Mr. Rifkin's book, "The European Dream" a while back, so I was really looking forward to this book. It would be much better to return unused carbon credits as time off work for the same pay. It was certainly a dizzying level of change: factories were retooled to produce ships, planes, and weapons. Ultimately, the book challenges us to re-imagine the role of our government as much more than a tool to foster economic growth.

Second society must reverse ecological damage caused by economic growth. Finally, while the book's subtitle makes it clear the focus is on economics, it lacks a thorough discussion on social inclusion, which is essential when talking about the former subject.

The Mobilization Board would be an analog of the War Production Board of the 1940s. Every one of these earlier mobilizations contained multiple false starts, improvisations, and course corrections. For instance, a 2019 study on the job impacts of a Green New Deal-style program in the state of Colorado found that many more jobs would be created than lost. Estimates are that 40% of conflicts within these countries are due to extraction, meaning that large increases in obtaining raw materials could cause a new round of resource wars. There were a few useful ideas and historical tidbits in here, but the deliberate lack of grounding in labor theory of value/concentration of capital’s power leads to some very flawed conclusions around what must be done. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Although there are other technical options envisioned, there is currently only one assured means of doing this; that is by forests. It was against this backdrop that 2019’s cascade of large and militant climate mobilizations unfolded. Most prominent among this new political breed is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who, at twenty-nine, became the youngest woman ever elected to the US Congress in 2018. AOC and Bernie Sanders have championed it by proposing bills. In 1943, in the United States, twenty million households (representing three-fifths of the population) had “Victory gardens” in their yards, growing fresh vegetables that accounted for 42 percent of all those consumed that year. pension money bogged down by the entire rest of the book which is a collection of half-truths, mistakes, naivete, bad math, self-promotion, and ignorance.

It is more like a high-level set of guiding principles. We need beautifully designed, racially integrated, zero-carbon urban housing, built with democratic input from communities of color, rather than the sprawling white suburbs and racially segregated urban housing projects of the postwar period.

In his foreword to the book Noam Chomsky notes that pro-GND US congresspersons do not directly challenge the fossil fuel industry.