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    A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
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    A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal

    By Thea Riofrancos, Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni and Daniel Aldana Cohen

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    All politics are climate politics in the twenty-first century - and this bold book argues for a Green New Deal that confronts both climate change and inequality

    The age of climate gradualism is over, as unprecedented disasters are exacerbated by inequalities of race and class. We need profound, radical change. A Green New Deal can tackle the climate emergency and rampant inequality at the same time. Cutting carbon emissions while winning immediate gains for the many is the only way to build a movement strong enough to defeat big oil, big business, and the super-rich - starting right now.

    A Planet to Win explores the political potential and concrete first steps of a Green New Deal. It calls for dismantling the fossil fuel industry and building beautiful landscapes of renewable energy, guaranteeing climate-friendly work and no-carbon housing and free public transit. And it shows how a Green New Deal in the United States can strengthen climate justice movements worldwide. We don't make politics under conditions of our own choosing, and no one would choose this crisis. But crises also present opportunities. We stand on the brink of disaster - but also at the cusp of wondrous, transformative change.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVerso US
    Release dateNov 12, 2019
    ISBN9781788738323
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    A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
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    Thea Riofrancos

    Thea Riofrancos is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College. She is the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke University Press, 2020), co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso Books, 2019), and currently writing Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism for W.W. Norton. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and The Guardian, among others.

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