Tag Archives: Green New Deal
Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels the Threat of Extinction
What are the implications for humanity as a whole?
Democracy Now! Decolonization or Extinction: Indigenous Red Deal Lays Out Plan to Save the Earth, Parts 1 and 2
The book offers a “people’s program to prevent extinction,” says Melanie Yazzie, assistant professor of Native American studies and American studies at the University of New Mexico and co-author of “The Red Deal.” “The plan is really clear. The stakes are really clear,” Yazzie says.
The Middle East Will Soon Be Under Water: A Talk with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
Arguing against the misplaced fear of economic disaster and unemployment arising from the transition to a green economy, they show how this bogus concern encourages climate denialism.
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
“The Green New Deal is the only approach to climate stabilization also capable of reversing rising inequality and defeating global neoliberalism and ascendant neofascism.”
Climate Crisis, the Environment and U.S. Militarism: Making the Connections
The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported.
Failed Action on the Climate Crisis Makes Resistance Imperative, Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
This is the last year that the United States will participate in the United Nations COP meetings as Trump formally withdraws from the Paris Agreement. What are activists in the US to do?
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: If We Want a Future, Green New Deal Is Key
Only about 25 percent of Republicans (36 percent of the more savvy millennials) recognize that humans are responsible for global warming. Shocking figures.
Suicide Watch on Planet Earth: As the Flames Began to Rise, the Arsonists Appeared
Collusion — hell, yeah! Putting the Planet on a Suicide Watch
Green New Deal Advocates Should Address Militarism, by Medea Benjamin – Alice Slater
Where is the call for the New Peace Deal that would free up hundreds of billions from the overblown military budget to invest in green infrastructure? Environmentalists need to contest the Pentagon’s staggering global footprint. The US military is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and the largest source of greenhouse gasses, contributing about 5 percent of global warming emissions.
Winona LaDuke Calls for Indigenous-Led “Green New Deal” as She Fights Minnesota Pipeline Expansion
What could $7 billion do in Minnesota? What could it do to make a New Green Deal?
Solving Our Climate Crisis: A Town Hall with Sen. Bernie Sanders, and more with Naomi Klein, Cenk (Young Turks), and the Humanist Report
Join Senator Bernie Sanders LIVE for a national town hall about the current state of our climate crisis. Senator Sanders will be joined by experts and environmental activists to discuss solutions for how we can combat climate change and protect the planet. Joining Senator Sanders is actress and activist Shailene Woodley, author and founder of […]
The Intercept: Climate Crisis with Naomi Klein and others, Live Town Hall
Naomi Klein: The “Green New Deal” is not a piecemeal approach that trains a water gun on a blazing fire, but a comprehensive plan to transform society for the better.
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