Radical reform and the Green New Deal

Abstract

CLIMATE POLITICS Radical reform and the Green New Deal On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal NAOMI KLEIN Simon & Schuster (2019) Michael Mann examines Naomi Klein's collection on the proposed US policy aiming to curb climate change. Klein dismisses such measures as both inadequate for reducing carbon emissions and inconsistent with a just energy transition; her argument is that the wealthy, who expend the most carbon, will not be deterred by having to pay for it. Otherwise, as one individual said to me, the Republican Party can easily cry 'socialism' to convince voters to oppose the kinds of policy we need to mitigate climate change.