Science, the Labor Movement, and the Green New Deal w/ Leigh Phillips

Joining us this week to talk about the importance of placing science and the labor movement at the center of the movement for a Green New Deal is Leigh Phillips, author of Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-Porn Addicts (Zero, 2015) and The People's Republic of Wal-Mart, co-authored with Michal Rozworski (Verso, 2019).

We discuss the scope and shape of a socialist Green New Deal, what kind of clean energy will be necessary, and critique the way that some progressives and socialists have gone about arguing for a green ecological movement.

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Leigh's latest writings on the topic can be found here:

-"Planning the Earth System: A Call for a Global Democracy," https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-11-summer-2019/planning-the-earth-system

-"The new, safer nuclear reactors that might help stop climate change," https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612940/the-new-safer-nuclear-reactors-that-might-help-stop-climate-change/

-"In Defense of Air Conditioning," https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/air-conditioning-climate-change-energy-pollution

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