The GND’s greatest potential is to represent a whole new political paradigm in which legislation—and political, social, and economic life itself—occurs.
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Land use has been a tool of oppression, but it can also be a tool of our liberation.
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This country ought to recover the memory of the first Earth Day: a 20-million strong grassroots demonstration that won basic environmental policy as we know it.
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It’s easy to compare Green New Deal to FDR’s original New Deal. Let’s also compare it to a country who’s recently been there, done that.
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The job of the political left is to continuously remind skeptics that a GND and M4A stand to greatly expand individual agency and freedom.
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We should be pursuing both consumer and political means toward climate mitigation—what matters is that we do it collectively. Here's a big list of the actions we can take together.
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The corporate-engineered backlash against environmentalists in the late 20th century speaks to the need for left-liberal unity against state infiltration.
Read MoreThe Left would benefit from treating policy goals and political strategy differently—particularly when it comes to the Green New Deal.
Read MoreProponents of the GND must think outside the box. Harnessing the power of eminent domain to keep fossil fuels in the ground is exactly the kind of transformative and creative strategy we need to embrace in order to do so.
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We sat down with community organizer Andrea Chu to discuss how she teaches about the impact of climate change on Asian Americans, the mainstream climate movement’s failure to acknowledge it, and what change could look like.
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The Green New Deal’s meaty focus on economic and racial justice makes it a political liability for no one but a narrow elite.
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The fallout of climate disaster will spawn new forms of environmental injustice—centered around the police state—that climate activists committed to equity need to be prepared for.
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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised a “fourth transformation” of the Mexican state and is taking back control of the national oil and gas firm. Workers, indigenous groups, and the environmental movement in Mexico and internationally can push the agenda further.
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We need not sacrifice freedom of expression, our autonomy, our right to self-rule to survive what lies ahead. But if we allow our current, cramped understanding of who the Constitution serves to preclude climate mitigation, the horizon of possibilities will be increasingly limited by the physics of a rapidly warming world.
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A letter to our readers at the six-month mark.
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TFW nuclear war may be the only way to stop human extinction.
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The problem seems to be not just carbon use, but the attitude that both the Earth and consumers are resources that can and should be exploited.
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The climate politics scholar, a rising star in her field, shares her thoughts on the discipline, fossil fuel political hegemony, a #GreenNewDeal, and how social scientists can help activists win.
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This is the vision of a future society the left can carry forward: one where we enjoy the aesthetic, spiritual and educational benefits of preserving natural areas, retain and enhance our ability to live free of physical needs, and increase democratic control over the land upon which we all rely for life.
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Instead of expecting rural folks to immediately sign onto our platform or write them off forever, we need to work on building trust, fighting for resources, and appealing to the values most important to them.
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