Climate Crisis and the Global Green New DealfeaturingRobert Pollin, Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His books include Greening the Global Economy, Back to Full Employment (2012), and A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States.
Robert Pollin, the renowned progressive economist maps out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change"and presents a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New Deal. Pollin shows how the forecasts for a hotter planet strain the imagination: vast stretches of the Earth will become uninhabitable, plagued by extreme weather, drought, rising seas, and crop failure. Arguing against the misplaced fear of economic disaster and unemployment arising from the transition to a green economy, he shows this bogus concern encourages climate denialism. Climate change is an emergency that cannot be ignored and Pollin doesnt!
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