S2: It’s all in a name: Green New Deals or Environmental and Social Justice?

As we all prepare to move into a new socially distanced world, Carola and Rich debate how exactly the economy should be rebooted. Introducing the theme of the season, they are already dithering when deciding on the name of the theme, or is it about concepts? They cover a short history of the term “Green New Deal” and explore some of the existing tensions between different political views on what a Green New Deal should include and what it shouldn’t. In preparation for a season  of dissecting various contemporary Green New Deals, they set themselves up to be the contemporary connoisseurs of the diverse flavours of GND’s. Like fine wine, some are delightful, and some just cheap and cheerful.  So stay subscribed to experience the GND cellar of fine dealing.

Links

• Joel Pett’s 2012 Cartoon Climate Summit https://www.climateactionreserve.org/blog/2012/08/31/environmental-cartoons-by-joel-pett/ 

• Thomas Friedman’s 2007 Article, suggested to have coined the term Green New Deal
  https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/opinion/19friedman.html (paywall)

• And his retrospective article in 2019
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/opinion/green-new-deal.html 

• 2008 - UK Green New Deal Group
  https://www.greennewdealgroup.org 

• 2008 Global Green New Deal
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Environment_Programme  

• 2018 IPPC 1.5Degree Report
  https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/ 

• History of the Green Parties in the globally
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_politics 

• European Green Deal
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/files/communication-european-green-deal_en