What
is the Green New Deal? This star-studded essay collection think Klein, Bill McKibben, and the environmental justice giant Rev. William J. Barber clearly lays out the urgent whys, whats, and hows. It’s a super useful one-stop resource. And it puts the “radical” accusations to rest: Don’t most of us want a baked-in-green economy that’s infinitely more equitable than the one we have? These authors make the case that, ultimately, these big, ambitious policy proposals are just plain decency and good ol’ common sense.
By Rob Nixon
I’ll end with this influential gem by Princeton’s own Rob Nixon and his coinage of the term “slow violence.” Nixon argues that environmental devastation that plays out more slowly say, how oil and gas companies slowly and surely lay waste globally to ecosystems, and especially to low-income communities that inhabit them is brutal violence all the same, even if far less visible than oil spills, bombings, and other more
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Last June, when most Americans could agree that their country was in crisis but few could agree on what to do about it, staffers from a small organization called Justice Democrats part of a burgeoning faction of young activists whose goal is to push the Democratic Party, and thus the entire political spectrum, to the left joined a gathering on the patio of a restaurant in Yonkers, overlooking the Hudson. It was a breezy Tuesday night, and polls in the congressional primary had just closed. Most of the staffers hadn’t seen one another in person since