Green New Deal

November 2019: The metaphor "Green New Deal" describes the scale needed to confront the climate crisis, evoking the national solidarity of the original New Deal. In this special issue, the Prospect demonstrates that an initiative on this scale is not only urgent but practical, as policy, as technology, and above all, as politics. The technologies and strategies exist. The challenge is rallying a national commitment to pursue them. The United States has to take the lead, as we are both the worst climate offender and the one nation capable of spearheading a global reversal.

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  Green New Deal: The Urgent Realism of Radical Change

  A socially just Green New Deal is far more feasible than skeptics think, as policy and technology. The challenge is the politics. Read more

  Robert Kuttner