Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

Publication Title

Radical Philosophy Review

First Page

404

Last Page

414

DOI

10.5840/radphilrev2020232108

Abstract

This review essay discusses three recent books on the Green New Deal (GND), written, respectively, by Naomi Klein, Jeremy Rifkin, and Kate Aronoff and a few other democratic socialists. It argues that the New Deal offers a better model of how to envision the change required for deep carbonization than the vision of war mobilization after Pearl Harbor since it emphasizes not only the need for massive introduction of green technology but also the importance of broad social change constituting a just transition. The essay argues that the GND should be placed in a global context so that the adoption of the GND in the Global North would lead to much greater funding of green developments in the less industrialized countries of the Global South.

Rights

This is a post-print version of an article originally published in Radical Philosophy Review, 2020, Volume 23, Issue 2. The version of record is available through: Philosophy Documentation Center.

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