{"id":52821,"date":"2020-04-28T07:28:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52821"},"modified":"2020-04-28T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:29:00","slug":"now-is-the-time-to-end-the-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52821","title":{"rendered":"Now is the time to end the climate emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/unevenearth.org\/2020\/04\/now-is-the-time-to-end-the-climate-emergency\/\">Now is the time to end the climate emergency<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reading \u201cThe Green New Deal and beyond\u201d in the middle of a global crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/the-green-new-deal-and-beyond-ending-the-climate-emergency-while-we-still-can\/9780872868069\">The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can<\/a><\/em>, Stan Cox has a message for all who were counting on the Green New Deal to help save us from ecological and economic collapse: this legislation will not go far enough. Cox\u2019s book comes at a sobering time, when the only two U.S. presidential candidates he mentions as being in favor of the Green New Deal\u2014Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren\u2014have fallen behind a \u2018more electable\u2019 candidate who has not expressed such enthusiastic support for GND policies. In light of such developments, and in light of the global health crisis now facing the world, a manuscript devoted to many of the GND\u2019s shortcomings might seem untimely. Yet Cox provides important insights into how our intersecting crises\u2014ecological, economic, and epidemiological\u2014could lead to a positive restructuring of the economy, if we can push such legislation to meet them. To do so, Cox argues, requires expanding the GND\u2019s restorative approach to environmental justice, a willingness to reinvent the economy at a scale not seen since World War II, and the prioritizing of people and the planet above economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are a few assumptions of the Green New Deal with which Cox takes issue, given how far we have advanced on the climate clock. These include the legislation\u2019s vision to build up \u2018green\u2019 energy capacity and its promise to maintain and even accelerate economic growth. First, Cox addresses the common assumption that clean energy will push out old, dirty energy, by showing that there is so far no evidence to support that this will happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now is the time to end the climate emergency Reading \u201cThe Green New Deal and beyond\u201d in the middle of a global crisis In&nbsp;The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, Stan Cox has a message for all who were counting on the Green New Deal to help save [&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":[2,3,4],"tags":[13249,391,29549,674,15995,11323],"class_list":["post-52821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-climate-emergency","tag-growth","tag-natalie-suzelis","tag-renewable-energy","tag-stan-cox","tag-uneven-earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52821","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=52821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52822,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52821\/revisions\/52822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}