Climate Crisis and the Global Green N..., Robert Pollin
Climate Crisis and the Global Green N..., Robert Pollin
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Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal
The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

Author: Robert Pollin, Noam Chomsky, C.J. Polychroniou

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Unabridged: 4 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/22/2020


Synopsis

An engaging conversation with our most respected public intellectual around how a global Green New Deal has the potential to save humanity and the planet

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 thirty 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.

About Robert Pollin

Robert Pollin is Distinguished University Professor of Economics and codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His books include The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy, Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity, and Greening the Global Economy. He has worked as a consultant for the US Department of Energy, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and numerous non-governmental organizations in several countries and in US states and municipalities on various aspects of building high-employment green economies.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

Chomsky in 2020: still prioritizing the most dire issues Preamble: --2022 update: I first read this in 2021 as a primer to a global Green New Deal (with number-crunching by the economist co-author Robert Pollin), having only read more social-critique intro’s like Naomi Klein’s (On Fire: The Burning Ca......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

For someone who has mainly devoted his ecological reading to old carbon-tax discussions and the grandiosity of a total ecological disaster (in many books), I feel as if I'm coming into the Global Green New Deal topic rather late. You know, because so many other things have been going on. Like social......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard

The critical question is what constitutes a realistic and sustainable project for achieving zero-emission energy resources by 2050 that can overcome existing political, economic, and even cultural resistance to a “green economy.” Engaging an intellectual and a political economist in a debate about cl......more

Goodreads review by David

If Noam Chomsky is willing to plunge into the Green New Deal (GND) debate, I am certainly willing to read it. Unfortunately, Chomsky’s comments are mostly the same as in his political criticism. He defers to experts for environmental issues. Robert Pollin is that expert, and the two of them answer q......more

An equivalence of a Stephen King’s novel, but in this scenario, it is reality. I think everyone should probably read this book. Actual rating: 4.2/5 ☆......more