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Kate Aronoff, David Wallace-Wells, Robert C. Hockett, Matthew Miles Goodrich, & Arielle Duhaime-Ross discuss the climate crisis & redemptive capacity of the GND.
In late 2018, a UN climate science body report stated that humanity has just 12 years to make massive, unprecedented changes to global energy infrastructure to limit global warming to moderate levels.
Policies that would reduce climate pollution are not new, but do not currently add up to a comprehensive solution. So what about the Green New Deal (GND)—a massive program of investments in clean-energy jobs and infrastructure, meant to transform not only the energy sector but the whole economy?
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Operating on three core principles—decarbonization, jobs, and justice—the GND intends to both decarbonize the economy and improve the growing inequality and top-heavy power of late Capitalism.
Outlining the realities of the impending climate crisis and then examining the potential of the GND as a plan of response, this event will tackle topics such as: the political and social impacts of global warming; the adaptations must we begin to make, technically, politically, and socially; the political and policy engineering required to achieve the GND; achieving bi-partisan support; and what a GND platform that diverse constituencies can rally around and endorse would look like.
Kate Aronoff is a Brooklyn-based independent writer covering climate and American politics, and a contributing writer to The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Dissent, Rolling Stone, and Harpers, among other outlets.
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She was previously a writing fellow at In These Times. Kate is editing a forthcoming anthology about democratic socialism in America, set to be published by The New Press in 2020. She is writing a book about the politics of climate change, The New Denialism, to be published by Bold Type Books, also in 2020.
Robert Hockett joined the Cornell Law Faculty in 2004. His principal teaching, research, and writing interests lie in the fields of organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics in both their positive and normative, as well as their national and transnational, dimensions. His guiding concern in these fields is with the legal and institutional prerequisites to a just, prosperous, and sustainable economic order.
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Hockett also does regular consulting work for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Monetary Fund, Americans for Financial Reform, the ‘Occupy’ Cooperative, and a number of federal and state legislators and local governments.Â
Arielle Duhaime-Ross is the environment and climate correspondent for VICE News Tonight—the Emmy award-winning nightly newscast from VICE Media and HBO. ​Prior to joining VICE, she was a science reporter at The Verge, where she was granted the 2015 Herb Lampert Science in Society Emerging Journalist award for her coverage of a radical 1950s scientist who suggested memory could be stored outside the brain. Duhaime-Ross has previously written for Scientific American, Nature Medicine, The Atlantic, and Quartz. Originally from Canada, she has a bachelor’s in zoology and a master’s in science, health, and environmental reporting. At VICE News Tonight, Duhaime-Ross has extensively reported the politics of climate change, life-threatening instances of environmental contamination, and the effect that global warming is already having on communities worldwide.