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Climate Memo Mondays
About The Book,
Publisher’s Description
An urgent and definitive collection
of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green
New Deal—and a detailed playbook for how we can win it—including
contributions by leading activists and progressive writers like Varshini
Prakash, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Bill McKibben, Rev William Barber II, and more.
In October 2018, scientists warned that we have less than 12 years left to
transform our economy away from fossil fuels, or face catastrophic climate
change. At that moment, there was no plan in the US to decarbonize our economy
that fast. Less than two years later, every major Democratic presidential
candidate has embraced the vision of the Green New
Deal—a rapid, vast transformation of
our economy to avert climate catastrophe while securing economic and racial
justice for all.
What happened? A new generation of leaders confronted the political
establishment in Washington DC with a simple message: the climate crisis is
here, and the Green New Deal is our last,
best hope for a livable future. Now comes the hard part: turning that vision
into the law of the land.
In Winning a Green New Deal, leading youth activists, journalists, and
policymakers explain why we need a transformative agenda to avert climate
catastrophe, and how our movement can organize to win. Featuring essays by
Varshini Prakash, cofounder of Sunrise Movement; Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Green New
Deal policy architect; Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize–winning economist; Bill
McKibben, internationally renowned environmentalist; Mary Kay Henry, the
President of the Service Employees International Union, and others we’ll learn
why the climate crisis cannot be solved unless we also confront inequality and
racism, how movements can redefine what’s politically possible and overcome the
opposition of fossil fuel billionaires, and how a Green
New Deal will build a just and thriving economy for all of us.
For anyone looking to understand the movement for a Green
New Deal, and join the fight for a livable future, there is no resource
as clear and practical as Winning the Green
New Deal.
ACTION
Notice and tell
others of the two main themes of GND: 1) transforming our neoliberal economy to
avert climate catastrophe while 2).securing economic and racial justice for
all.
Tell others about this book, on sale at B&N.
Get
informed about the New Deal.
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