Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

An engaging conversation with Noam Chomsky--revered public intellectual and Manufacturing Consent author--about climate change, capitalism, and how a global Green New Deal can save the planet. Climate change: watershed or endgame? An engaging conversation public intellectual and Manufacturing Consent author Noam Chomsky about the climate change, capitalism, and how a global Green New Deal can save the planet. In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change--and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New Deal. Together, Chomsky and Pollin show 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 tran