It's irrelevant whether establishment liberals are sincerely aware of the
threat posed by climate catastrophe because they are constitutionally hemmed
in by a small-bore, technocratic and profoundly neoliberal ideology. But the
climate justice movement understands not only the urgency of the problem but
also the magnitude of the political-economic response that solving it
requires: to fight global warming, according to The Green New Deal, we must
transform the unequal, alienating and exploitative system that carbon
emissions are rooted in. Dan interviews Green New Deal architect Rhiana Gunn-
Wright.
Read Jacobin's Green New Deal series jacobinmag.com/series/green-new-deal
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