Green New Deal

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/21/2021
  

  Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal

  by Naomi Klein

  The Texas blackouts show the political and social dead ends of the market revolution and the fossil fuel economy, says Naomi Klein. Politicians and industries wedded to the status quo are attacking the idea of a "Green New Deal" because it's encouraging people to imagine alternatives. 

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• SOURCE: Counterpunch
  5/22/2020
  

  Greening the Old New Deal

  National service and a green new deal, with lessons from the old new deal, could be the first step in “civilianizing” our nation, and beyond recovery, enhancing the world’s prospects for health, justice, and sustainability.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/2/2020
  

  The Hot & Bothered Podcast: Beyond the New Deal

  It’s impossible to contemplate a Green New Deal without sharpening our understanding of the original New Deal—its labor movement, its ambitious experiments, and its racial inequalities.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  10/17/19
  

  The Greening of the New Deal

  by Steve Fraser

  The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  6/9/2019
  

  Eric Rauchway tracks the progress from The New Deal to The Green New Deal

  His latest book, “Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt And The First Clash Over The New Deal” ― is an engaging, character-driven tour through the philosophical debates and political knife-fighting at the nadir of the Great Depression.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/7/19
  

  Hamburgers Have Been Conscripted Into the Fight Over the Green New Deal. The History of American Beef Shows Why

  by Joshua Specht

  Hamburgers are the newest front in the culture wars.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/6/19
  

  The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think

  by Louis Hyman

  If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.

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• 3/3/19
  

  The English Diggers, the "Commons," and the Green New Deal

  by Ed Simon

  The idea of the “commons” as a space of collective ownership, responsibility, engagement, and possibility must be a metaphor that the left draws from rhetorically. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/19/19
  

  A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy

  The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?

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• 2/14/19
  

  Is the Green New Deal Impossible?

  by James Brewer Stewart

  The Green New Dealers, the Abolitionists and the “Right Side of History”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/11/19
  

  Democrats are invoking FDR in their Green New Deal. It’s historically misleading.

  by Charles Lane

  Politically powerful as the invocation of America’s great collective deeds under Franklin D. Roosevelt might be, however, it is historically misleading — deeply so.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  12-19-2018
  

  Here’s What Happened to the Last Green New Deal

  by Michael Brenes

  If progressives want to pass environmental legislation, they should pay attention to what happened 50 years ago.