Movies like The Day After Tomorrow, Geostorm, and Sharknado 5: Global Swarming imagine the worst case scenario for global warming. But which sci-fi movies are solving the climate crisis? Some of the best science fiction writers working in "cli-fi" have answers.
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world are turning to ‘Green New Deals’ as a win-win solution to both economic crisis and climate catastrophe. Nowhere is this more apparent than the all-encompassing European Green Deal (EGD), launched by the European Commission to bring the continent’s carbon emissions down to net zero by 2050.
One might assume that the environmental movement would be happy with this policy initiative, but since the EGD’s launch it has been met with fierce criticism. The ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro has argued that US President Roosevelt’s original New Deal, upon which Green Deals are conceptually modelled, was ultimately aimed at maintaining social order during the Great Depression and thereby upholding the capitalist status quo. In the same way, many are challenging the new wave of Green New Deals for not questioning the fundamental structures of our existing economic model.
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New York politics have featured Green New Deals for more than a decade. Howie Hawkins, the 2018 Green Party gubernatorial nominee, ran under the banner of confronting climate change and the damage done to disadvantaged communities by fossil fuels in one legislative go. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have their own respective plans. Add Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan to the list.
The upstate Democrat recently unveiled his own 21st Century homage to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt s signature initiatives against the Great Depression. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy efficiency in buildings and spurring economic activity based in the transition to renewable energy all have a place in the plans that Ryan unveiled earlier this month. What makes his plan unique is how it might show how county governments might tackle climate change.
Keeping ESG investment performance in perspective
After 12-month returns in the triple digits, investors got a wake-up call when ESG funds came crashing back down to earth.
April 22, 2021 4 MINS
It would be difficult to miss the surging popularity of ESG investing, especially if you’re a financial journalist fielding press releases during the week of the 51
st annual Earth Day celebration.
But beyond the pitches for interviews with executives and politicians who are saving the planet by growing their own tomatoes and supporting laws that make polluting more illegal than it already is, there is the investing angle.
Allowing for the environmental, social and governance nomenclature corn maze that detours toward sustainable, responsible, impact and things baked by grandma, it is obvious the general category is growing like organic mushrooms on the dark side of a decaying log in the woods of Maine.
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