The Climate Crisis and the Green New Deal: The Issue is the Issue, after All

Challenge ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-233
Author(s):  
Peter Dorman
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Climate Crisis

scholarly journals Responding to the climate crisis: Green consumerism or the Green New Deal?

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Sean Shanagher
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Green Consumerism ◽  
The Face ◽  
Climate Crisis

This article aims to contribute to the climate crisis debate in Ireland by exploring tendencies in media coverage towards two quite different ‘solutions.’ These might be seen as representing two poles of the current debate—either remaining securely within or departing significantly from the certainties of neoliberalism. The focus in this piece is on critically weighing up the respective strengths of these two responses in the face of climate disruption. I hope to encourage further research on this basis into quantifying media coverage of these and other potential solutions. In 2020, ‘green’ has become a mobile and versatile qualifier, employed by various social groups for a range of ends. I will briefly explore what Kahn has termed ‘green consumerism’ before considering various forms of the Green New Deal (GND).

scholarly journals Green Military New Deal

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-37
Author(s):  
Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa ◽  
Iuliia Gankevich
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Military Establishment ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
Information Logistics ◽  
New Energy ◽  
The Military ◽  
Climate Crisis

Among the most decisive challenges that the climate crisis will bring during up coming decades will be the necessity to overcome the current lack of planetary ecosystem governance. The void that exists where proper geopolitics should reside demands a recalibration of the focus of design towards the conception, implementation, and support of new institutional models capable of reconfiguring established infrastructural, ecosystem and governance structures. The rising awareness of the lack of ecological agency has recently led to the emergence of several proto-policies branded under the name of “Green New Deals” (GNDs): the green proposals across the world that aim to address climate change and economic inequality. However, the implementation of the GND’s goals requires not only the necessary infrastructural means for decarbonisation but also a set of social insurance mechanisms able to guarantee social stability during the transition to a new energy regime. The complexity that this task poses in relation to society, the economy, manufacturing industries and goods and information logistics will require the establishment of an institution capable of intervening in the regulation and coordination of all the parties involved. Green Military New Deal (GMND) is a research proposal that lies between the legislative models of ecosystem governance and the institutions capable of enforcing them. It speculates about the military establishment as a proto-platform that could fulfil the institutional gap created by the GND’s demands. Would it be possible to reimagine the military establishment as a trans-national ecological force capable of mobilising and enforcing proper ecosystem management, conscious of its ability to act as a welfare provider while deploying its technological resources? Our research offers an informed approach toward this counterintuitive premise, uncomfortable as it may be, by forcing us to question how certain existing institutions could be properly repurposed to address issues of global necessity.

scholarly journals A People’s Green New Deal: Obstacles and Prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 227797602110308
Author(s):  
Max Ajl
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Northern Climate ◽  
The Common ◽  
Climate Crisis

Within the past years, the Green New Deal (GND) became the common language for Northern climate politics, offering a seeming exit path from Northern social and ecological crises while erasing an older Northern climate discourse tied to Southern demands for climate reparations and rights to development. This Eurocentric GND has become the environmental program for an equally Eurocentric social democratic renewal. This article situates the GND in world-systemic shifts, and Northern reactions to such shifts. It situates the GND as one of three possible Eurocentric solutions to the climate crisis: a great elite transformation from above; a left-liberal “reformist” resolution; a social democratic resolution. It then elaborates a possible “People’s Green New Deal,” a revolutionary transformation focused on state sovereignty, climate debt, auto-centered development, and agriculture. Within each proposed resolution, it traces the role of the land, agriculture, and peasants.

Financial Bailout Spending Would Have Almost Paid for Thirty Years of Global Green New Deal Climate: Triage, Regeneration, and Mitigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 650-661
Author(s):  
Ron Baiman
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
Climate Crisis

Human-induced climate crisis is destroying the capacity of our planet to support our species and other life at an unprecedented rate. The most urgent of climate crisis tipping points is Arctic warming and sea ice loss. It is estimated that Arctic summer sea ice loss, that could—based on current trends—occur in one or two decades, would cause an abrupt 0.5 Watts per square meter increase in global warming above preindustrial levels that would be roughly equivalent to the effect of more than seventeen years of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if it occurred today. A Global Green New Deal (GGND) will require at least three phases and three funding sources. The three overlapping phases are (a) short-run climate restoration or triage, (b) medium-term soil carbon sponge and water cycle adaptation or regeneration, and (c) long-run GHG drawdown or mitigation. The three funding sources are (a) utilizing the sovereign of the US government and Federal Reserve to create dollars, (b) taxing GHG emissions, and (c) taxing wealthy and high-income individuals with a particular focus on rentiers. The ex-nihilo financial support offered by the Fed to bail out the global financial system from 2008 to 2011 would have been almost sufficient to fund a 2020–2050 comprehensive GGND that includes all of the components above.

A new deal for South Korea’s science?

Nature ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 581 (7809) ◽  
pp. S49-S49
Author(s):  
Catherine Armitage
Keyword(s):  
New Deal

What we can learn from the parallels between the COVID-19 and the future climate change crises

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén D. Manzanedo ◽  
Peter Manning
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Substantial Portion ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
The Future ◽  
Behavioral Norm ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Global Population

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak pandemic is now a global crisis. It has caused 1.6+ million confirmed cases and 100 000+ deaths at the time of writing and triggered unprecedented preventative measures that have put a substantial portion of the global population under confinement, imposed isolation, and established ‘social distancing’ as a new global behavioral norm. The COVID-19 crisis has affected all aspects of everyday life and work, while also threatening the health of the global economy. This crisis offers also an unprecedented view of what the global climate crisis may look like. In fact, some of the parallels between the COVID-19 crisis and what we expect from the looming global climate emergency are remarkable. Reflecting upon the most challenging aspects of today’s crisis and how they compare with those expected from the climate change emergency may help us better prepare for the future.

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