De-Growth vs. a Green New Deal
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- Written
- 2018
- Form
- Essay
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 25 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendNew Left Review 112 (July-August 2018)New Left Review, 2018The essay appeared as an article in New Left Review and is read there or as a PDF; Pollin expands the argument in Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal (Verso, 2020).
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An essay in New Left Review arguing against the degrowth movement, which holds that the climate emergency requires rich economies to shrink, and for a global Green New Deal. Pollin calculates that the emissions cuts needed cannot be reached by contracting GDP without mass unemployment, and that investing about 1.5 to 2 percent of global GDP a year in clean energy and efficiency could cut emissions while expanding employment. He treats degrowth as a moral position without a programme and the Green New Deal as a workable one.
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