The neoliberal model has been highly successful in achieving its most basic aim, which is to shower ever-greater advantages on the already over-privileged

The grassroots activists throughout the country in the Green New Deal Network, who crafted the THRIVE Act, have established the standard that we need to be reaching for now as best we can

Don Fitz’s response makes two major assertions: 1) Reducing overall consumption and working fewer hours provides a viable path on its own to stabilizing the global climate; and 2) Renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, are not really “clean” even though they supply energy without generating CO2 emissions

This is the first part of an exchange between Robert Pollin and Don Fitz for ZNet

The key to climate politics is guaranteeing fossil fuel workers no loss in salary as sustainable energy replaces carbon-based fuel – and this would cost “a pittance”

The significance of the IPCC report is beyond reasonable doubt. As to whether the necessary measures will be taken? That’s up to us

Neoliberalism can be defeated, and supplanted by a policy framework that is committed to high levels of social and economic equality as well as ecological justice

For the first time, 62 percent of all renewable energy sources produced energy at lower costs than the cheapest sources of fossil fuel energy

Interview on the climate stabilization project for California and the national implications of union support for a green economy transition

If we do end up building a viable clean energy system through a global Green New Deal, we will therefore also succeed in advancing democracy and egalitarianism