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Green New Deal Newsletter #1, July 7, 2020 -- GREEN NEW DEAL NEWSLETTER #1 7-7-20 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/07/ omni-green-new-deal-newsletter-1.html (see GND doc for I. published and under construction newsletters and II. misc. books, articles, correspondence in process of development,) Published Books in Chronological Order See Rifkin p. incl. Barbier Include blog links 2008 New Economics Foundation. A Green New Deal: Joined-Up Policies to Solve the Triple Crunch of the Credit Crisis, Climate Change, and High Oil Prices. 2009 Edward Barbier. Rethinking the Economic Recovery: A Global Green New Deal. UNEP, April. Philipp Schepelmann et al. A Green New Deal for Europe: Towards Green Modernisation in the Face of Crisis. Katy Nicholson, ed. Toward a Transatlantic Green New Deal: Tackling the Climate and Economic Crises. Worldwatch Institute. 2011 Enric Ruiz-Geli and Jeremy Rifkin. A Green New Deal: From Geopolitics to Biosphere Politics. 2016 Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In. A comprehensive founding text for the 2 House GND Resolutions. (Also see Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, Green Party Campaign. “The Green New Deal.” Stein was the presidential candidate, Baraka the vice-presidential.) Platform - www.gp.org - Green Party www.gp.org › platform These values guide us in countering and changing a system that extols exploitation, unsustainable ... Approved by the Green National Committee, August 2016. 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Global Warming of 1.5Degrees C: An IPCC Special Report. Geneva: World Meteorological Organization, 2018. “Summary for Policy-makers.” This is part of the 6th “Assessment,” which made a powerful impact. The IPCC has published reports since the early 1990s. Google for commentary. Global Warming of 1.5 ºC - IPCC www.ipcc.ch › ... An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre- industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. Download Report · Summary for Policymakers · About · Chapter 1 Greg Carlock and Emily Mangan. A Green New Deal: A Progressive Vision for Environmental Sustainability and Economic Stability. 2019 (“House Resolution 109, 116th Congress , 1st Session H. H. Res. 109, Introduced January 3, 2019, by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.” https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/hous e-resolution/109 “House Resolution 52, Introduced July 9, 2019, by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and others, Expressing the sense of Congress that there is a climate emergency which demands a massive-scale mobilization to halt, reverse, and address its consequences and causes.” https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hconres 52/text Also see Stan Cox, The Green New Deal and Beyond for the texts. Two main goals: 1) stop the warming, 2) accomplish it fairly to all. See the excellent 7-minute film produced by The Intercept and Naomi Klein, A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.” It tells the story of the GND in retrospect. “ (xxxhttps://theintercept.com/2019/04/17/green-new- deal-short-film-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/? utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign =dc60b6ce22- EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_17_GND&utm_medium= email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-dc60b6ce22- 131867277 ). Naomi Klein, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal Kate Aronoff, et al., A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal, with Foreword by Naomi Klein. Ann Pettifor. The Case for the Green New Deal Jeremy Rifkin. The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth. Greta Thunberg. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference. Penguin, 2019. 2020 Stan Cox. The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can and “Fair Enough.” Meagan Day and Micah Utricht, Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism. “How can we take all the energy that [Bernie Sanders’s] candidacies have generated to build a movement that is bigger than a presidential candidate, bigger than a few dozen newly elected socialist representatives, and bigger than anything the US Left has seen in decades?” 2021 GND TEXTS 2016-2020 2016 BERNIE SANDERS, OUR REVOLUTION: A FUTURE TO BELIEVE IN. St. Martin’s, 2016. Reviewed by Dick Bennett. Bernie Sanders opens Our Revolution with a dedication to his family and all of his supporters. To them, to his readers he declares: “Don’t give up. The struggle must continue.” His first book, Outsider in the House (1997) (updated as Outsider in the White House, 2015) recounted his history and reveals his character, which unfolded before us during the campaign. What he says and what he does have been and are the same. He lost some elections because of it, but he stayed his course. He even called himself a socialist, during the Cold War the enemy. But it is the form of social organization, of affirmative government, designed to make life better for humans and all species. No wonder young people like him. Now in Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In he declares those values as he imagines them becoming future reality, if all who share his values work together as they did during his campaign. The book is divided into two parts. One, “Running for President.” It’s a quick summary of Outsider in the White House and his campaign for president, and a good reminder of the man. Two, “An Agenda for a New America: How We Transform Our Country” explains that domestic agenda in ten chapters. His basic position on each will be clear to all who followed his campaign (single payer health care for all etc.), and here each is clearly explained both by subject and method. One position that wasn’t as well explained during the campaign as the others—climate change--, because the debate interviewers never asked about it, he provides in “Combatting Climate Change.” In all, the domestic goal of affirmative government for all the citizens is forcefully asserted. In Outsider Bernie is quoted as saying: “’We’ve got to create a progressive agenda and rally people around that agenda.’” He accomplished both. Our Revolution is intended to keep that momentum going. His “Conclusion” is a call to his supporters to continue “our revolution,” “the fight for economic, social, racial, and environmental justice. The fight to defeat the greed of the billionaire class.” It’s a call to all Bernies to “change our culture.” And on his final page Bernie presents two lists of the “objective problems” we face: “a rigged economy, a corrupt campaign finance system, a broken criminal justice system, and the extraordinary threat of climate change”; “greed, consumerism, oligarchy, poverty, war, racism, and environmental degradation.” But the greater problem is the establishment propaganda system that “tells us every day, in a million different ways, that real change is unthinkable and impossible.” In his last paragraphs he draws from Barack Obama’s first campaign to urge us to believe “Yes. We can.” As you see, one major absence in his revolution is foreign policy: he does not include in his agenda US militarism and empire. He does mention “the importance of developing a foreign policy that values diplomacy over war” (p. 2, and includes ‘war’ among our problems his last page, 447), but it is not in Part Two, his “Agenda for a New America” (nor was it during his campaign). I suppose the general public acceptance of the Pentagon budget and military dominance of the planet is simply too overwhelming. Who can blame him? All presidents have promoted expansion. I cannot believe, however, he agrees with the US national security warfare imperial state as it exists today. And although he was better than the other candidates of the two major parties (Jill Stein and the Greens presented a peace platform), for me his reticence on the subject is a major weakness in his progressive revolution. While we work for the success of his domestic policies, we must simultaneously work to ensure his commitment to diplomacy over war. And then we will have fully a candidate for a future to believe in. 1-19-17 What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like The possibilities of an “organizer-in-chief.” BY DANIEL DENVIR http://inthesetimes.com/features/Bernie-Sanders- presidency-climate-mobilization.html JANUARY 7 | JANUARY 2020 ISSUE WE HAVE A DECADE TO TRANSFORM THE U.S. ECONOMY TO STAVE OFF CLIMATE CATASTROPHE, and Bernie Sanders has the only agenda to do so and the only mobilization strategy to get it done. No plan for a better future is worthwhile if environmental crisis renders our future unimaginably bleak. As Naomi Klein notes, this planetary emergency “entered mainstream consciousness” in the 1980s as the Right and big business launched an “ideological war … on the very idea of the collective sphere.” To take the collective action needed to phase out fossil fuels, our next president must build a foreign policy of radical cooperation alongside a new domestic politics of inclusion—or else witness a racist, nationalist, far-right politics expand its divisive power. Sanders is the only presidential candidate who has put forward a genuine Green New Deal, a plan to radically remake the economy to serve ordinary people rather than just “greening” the economic system that threatens to end human society as we know it. His Green New Deal would dismantle the fossil fuel industry and put a renewable energy system under democratic control, working with governments around the world to achieve what the science demands. Sanders’ proposals go beyond piecemeal liberal solutions by targeting the unjust economic system that fuels climate change and pushing an agenda that simultaneously empowers workers and saves the planet.
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