Summary
Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin: The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal
The new book by Chomsky and Pollin contains a big idea: stabilizing climate conditions without collapsing social life, with better jobs, improving living standards and reducing poverty in the world.
The catastrophic consequences that will occur if climate change is not curbed are described in detail in the analyzes in this book prepared by two authors - Noam Chomsky, a leading public intellectual for more than half a century in the world and Robert Pollin, known throughout the world as a progressive economist who has been leading the fight on behalf of an egalitarian green economy for more than a decade.
Chomsky strongly supports the global Green New Deal program that Pollin outlines in this book, showing how the criteria for such a program are easy to achieve, even when viewed strictly from the perspective of technical and economic hurdles to overcome. Outside the circle of such technical and economic challenges, the biggest obstacle on the way to success is gathering the necessary political will to overcome the enormous interests and resources of the global economic branch of fossil fuel production.
This book is a manual for the survival of our civilization. I would like every inhabitant of this planet to understand its message and face the challenges it poses. - Daniel Ellsberg, author of The Doomsday Machine
This small-scale book contains a big idea: stabilizing climate conditions without collapsing social life, with better jobs, improving living standards and reducing poverty everywhere in the world. Two eminent thinkers present convincing arguments in support of a realistic and feasible global Green New Deal project. - Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi
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