The Green New Deal from below : How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy

Brecher, Jeremy

University of Illinois Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780252046186
• DDC分類 333.70973

Full Description

A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earth's climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to use the necessity for climate protection as a basis for realizing full employment and social justice.

Jeremy Brecher goes beyond the national headlines and introduces readers to the community, municipal, county, state, tribal, and industry efforts advancing the Green New Deal across the United States. Brecher illustrates how such programs from below do the valuable work of building constituencies and providing proofs of concept for new ideas and initiatives. Block by block, these activities have come together to form a Green New Deal built on a strong foundation of small-scale movements and grassroots energy.

A call for hope and a better tomorrow, The Green New Deal from Below offers a blueprint for reconstructing society on new principles to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Shifting the Sense of What Is Possible

The Green New Deal in the Cities
The Green New Deal in the States
Unions Making a Green New Deal
Climate Justice from Below
Climate-Safe Energy Production
Negawatts
Fossil Fuel Phaseout
Transforming Transportation
Protecting Workers and Communities-On the Ground
Just Transition in the States: "There Ought to Be a Law!"
Green New Deal Jobs for the Future

Conclusion: The Green New Deal from Below and the Politics of the Possible

Notes

Index