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Climate Memo Mondays, February 28, 2022
European Green New Deal
Talking to Your Kid about CC
GREEN NEW DEAL: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES
A Left Green New Deal: An
Internationalist Blueprint.
Edited
by Bernd Riexinger, Lia Becker, Katharina Dahme and Christina
Kaindl. Monthly
Review P, 2022.
Publisher’s description
With the cascading
effects of multiple ongoing health and economic crises, conditions are ripe for
the emergence of a global progressive social project capable of moving us
beyond business-as-usual and eradicating the fundamental causes of misery:
namely, a global Green New Deal. But simply creating new “green jobs” within
the current capitalist system is not nearly enough. If we are to take on climate change, it is imperative that we first of
all engage in “system change,” a process rooted in socialism. Shifting beyond
the American notion of the Green New Deal and adding vital internationalist
dimension, A Left Green New Deal provides
just such a blueprint for this worldwide undertaking.
Written by Bernd
Riexinger and his team in the German DIE LINKE [the left] Party, A Left Green New
Deal unveils the
powerful opponents of a genuine, left-wing Green New Deal—corporations, the
wealthy, the ultra-rich and their political allies. But it also discloses the
creation of a potent new counterforce, embodied in a left-wing mobilization
strategy developed by DIE LINKE. This organizing model is based in “connective
party politics”— transformative organizing practices that reach across class
lines within and beyond the party. This essential book provides both a Left Green New Deal platform
and the inspiration necessary to lay a path towards an alternate future.
Talking to your kid about climate change. Editor. Mronline.org (2-21-22). Emotions
are at the heart of the matter
?????
--Biden
should declare the climate catastrophe a national emergency (see Biden and
climate)
--Contrast
Lynas, Our Last Warning, on the dark truth about temperature and
resistance, to Fonda’s optimistic account of 4 mos. Of resistance.
Fonda, What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action. 2020.
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