Day: September 23, 2019

Green New Deal is wholistic politics

If I had to use one word to describe “Green New Deal”, it would be: WHOLISTIC Naomi Klein puts it this way in her intro to On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal: This book, made up of long-form reporting, think pieces, and public talks written over the span of a decade, tracks my own attempt to Continue Reading

Bad headlines

This headline is woefully inadequate. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/09/22/no-one-seemed-to-notice-greta-thunbergs-critique-of-the-green-new-deal But hey, that’s headlines for you. It’s not specifically “Green New Deal”. It’s the political game around it, which has become “IT” because “it” is the present expression of the urgency brewing in the “left” ranks. But many of the people behind the Green New Deal would be the first to tell you that Continue Reading