Financing the Green New Deal: A Plan of Action and Renewal
Robert C. Hockett, "Financing the Green New Deal: A Plan of Action and Renewal"
English | ISBN: 3030484491 | 2020 | 120 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1454 KB + 3 MB
English | ISBN: 3030484491 | 2020 | 120 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1454 KB + 3 MB
Climate scientists have determined that we must act now to prevent an irreversible and catastrophic climatic tipping point, beyond which neither our own nor many other species can be assumed likely to survive. On the way to that bleak ending, moreover, extreme socio-economic injustice and associated political breakdown—now well underway in nations already hard-hit by environmental crisis—can be expected to hasten as well.
The time has thus come to plan carefully, thoroughly, and on a scale commensurate with the crisis we face. This book, written by one of the key architects of the Green New Deal and prefaced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former Chief of Staff, indicates how to structure Green New Deal finance in a manner that advances the cross-cutting goals of maximum financial and economic inclusion, maximally democratic decision-making, and an appropriate division of roles both among all levels of government and among public and private sector decision-makers.
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