The Climate Movement’s Decades-Long Path to the Green New Deal
How the climate movement learned to play politics.
Matthew Miles Goodrich February 15, 2019
That the public sector must be massively mobilized in the fight against climate change has long been a bugbear of the right. But the failure to conceive of just how large a role the federal government will have to play in combating climate change has been the left’s own climate denial. The chasm between our present addiction to fossil fuels and the decarbonized economy the world needs is so daunting that it has proven easier to chant “we have the solutions” than it has been to build the political power to win in government.
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