Product details
- Categories: November 2019, Environmental Law, Environnement, Futur de l'Europe
- Publisher: VERSO BOOKS
- ISBN: 9781788738156
- Publication Date: 22/10/2019
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 208
- Language: English
Summary
The GND has the potential of becoming one of the largest global
campaigns of our times, and it started in Ann Pettifor's flat. In 2008,
the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of English
economist and thinkers, but was ignored within the tumults of the
financial crash. A decade later, the ideas was revived within the
democratic socialists in the US, forefront by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
The Green New Deal demands a radical and urgent reversal of the current
state of the global economy: including total de-carbonisation and a
commitment to fairness and social justice.
Critics on all sides
have been quick to observe that the GND is a pipe dream that could never
be implemented, and would cost the earth. But, as Ann Pettifor shows,
we need to rethink the function of money, and how it works within the
global system. How can we bail out the banks but not the planet? We have
to stop thinking about the imperative of economic growth-nothing grows
for ever. The program will be a long term project but it needs to start
immediately.