{"id":48230,"date":"2019-09-03T18:51:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T23:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48230"},"modified":"2019-09-03T18:51:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T23:51:04","slug":"false-hopes-for-a-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48230","title":{"rendered":"False hopes for a Green New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/oureconomy\/false-hopes-green-new-deal\/\">False hopes for a Green New Deal<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If the &#8216;Green New Deal&#8217; is our best answer to the climate crisis, then we have no answer to the climate crisis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-prod.opendemocracy.net\/media\/images\/PA-44646833.max-760x504.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Image: Julian Stratenschulte\/DPA\/PA Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent months the \u2018Green New Deal\u2019 has given hope to many on the Left as a promising solution to climate breakdown. Having been championed by the Sunrise Movement and figures such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders in the US, excitement for the Green New Deal has spread to the UK with the launch of the \u2018Labour for a Green New Deal\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Successive local Labour Party branches have passed motions in support of the programme, and the UK Labour Party itself has launched consultations for a \u2018Green Industrial Revolution.\u2019 Recently, the progressive think-tank Common Wealth<a href=\"https:\/\/common-wealth.co.uk\/Road-Map-to-a-Green-New-Deal-From-Extraction-to-Stewardship.html\">&nbsp;published a \u2018road map\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;for implementing sweeping reforms for a greener and fairer economy, providing the most detailed description yet of what a Green New Deal might look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Green New Deal promises everything. Its advocates anticipate a green industrial revolution led by workers, forging a power-grid run on renewables, a new and luxurious electrified transport system and affordable homes retrofitted for energy-efficiency. Our economy will be one of ethics and environmental stewardship, producing only what is socially-useful, with low-carbon lifestyles for all and with investors investing for sustainable ends. We will see employment for all, workers on shorter hours enjoying high-paid green jobs and a democratised workplace. Equally as important, the UK will enact this great renewable transition without perpetuating colonial resource extraction abroad. It all sounds too good to be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s because it is. Basic enquiry into the details of the Green New Deal reveals a failure to confront the political and economic realities leading to climate breakdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Capitalism\u2019s dilemma<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>False hopes for a Green New Deal If the &#8216;Green New Deal&#8217; is our best answer to the climate crisis, then we have no answer to the climate crisis. In recent months the \u2018Green New Deal\u2019 has given hope to many on the Left as a promising solution to climate breakdown. Having been championed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1053,27087,23450,10696,27086],"class_list":["post-48230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-climate-crisis","tag-false-hope","tag-green-new-deal","tag-open-democracy","tag-rufus-jordana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48231,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48230\/revisions\/48231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}