A Planet to Win

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By Kate Aronoff & Alyssa Battistoni &

Publisher Description

All politics are climate politics in the twenty-first century—and this bold book argues for a Green New Deal that confronts both climate change and inequality

The age of climate gradualism is over, as unprecedented disasters are exacerbated by inequalities of race and class. We need profound, radical change. A Green New Deal can tackle the climate emergency and rampant inequality at the same time. Cutting carbon emissions while winning immediate gains for the many is the only way to build a movement strong enough to defeat big oil, big business, and the super-rich—starting right now.

A Planet to Win explores the political potential and concrete first steps of a Green New Deal. It calls for dismantling the fossil fuel industry and building beautiful landscapes of renewable energy, guaranteeing climate-friendly work and no-carbon housing and free public transit. And it shows how a Green New Deal in the United States can strengthen climate justice movements worldwide. We don’t make politics under conditions of our own choosing, and no one would choose this crisis. But crises also present opportunities. We stand on the brink of disaster—but also at the cusp of wondrous, transformative change.

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21 Reviews

3.5

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“I will say that when I purchased this book I was unaware that it was written exclusively from a socialist perspective. However, I am glad I read it, as it opened my eyes to a more extreme perspective on how to fight climate change. I am pretty far left myself (definitely not a full-fledged socialist, but far closer to it than most people), so any complaints I have about the book would probably be exacerbated for a person further to the right of myself. This book comes off as pretty "circle-jerky" (sorry for the vulgarity I don't know of a good alternative that gets the same point across). It's just a lot of talking with seemingly not a lot of substance. They discuss an ideal future that certainly wouldn't seem ideal for someone on the right side of the political aisle. Much of their description is of a socialist utopia, and for some reason they think that others will see it in the same positive light that they do. They make some pretty extreme claims about how this climate fight needs to include essentially every social issue that the left is currently fighting for. Some things, like making sure that the poorer sectors of society and the world aren't left behind, and caring for climate refugees (etc.) are absolutely important, but they go far beyond that and lump so many more leftist ideals in with it. This whole book simply won't convince anyone who wasn't already on board with the Green New Deal, and even may push someone who was on the fence away from it after they see how expansive the authors' perspectives are on what it is all about. Again, I am pretty far left and I still have all of these complaints, I can only imagine what your average conservative would think. The authors claim to want political and societal solidarity to fight against climate change (obviously important), yet I can't imagine anyone even slightly to the right of me being convinced at all by this book. I think the following fully encapsulates how un-welcoming this book is to someone that isn't already in support of the Green New Deal broadly. They claim that they want the fossil fuel executives to be tried for crimes against humanity. They talked about this for multiple pages, not just a passing "oh, you know technically these people could be tried for crimes against humanity by the UN definition". That is what they started with, and I was fairly on board with at least framing it that way as long as they left it at that. That simply wasn't enough for them, they continue (after two pages of discussing it further), "a push to try fossil fuel executives for crimes against humanity could channel some much-needed populist rage at the climate's 1 percent and render them persona non grata in a respectable society...". Talk about being unserious... This book was very much a let down for me. They don't really flesh out any of the ideas, just vaguely posture at their socialist utopia that can be achieved through fighting a real fight against climate change. At times it felt like they were only using the fight against climate change to push towards their other ideals (many of which I agree with). They mention some other perspectives of people who are arguing to fight against climate change from a different angle, yet they reject those ideas without really giving a solid reason why. I had really high hopes for this book, I was hoping it would have some solid foundation on the facts of climate change and build up to some methods that should be used to combat it. I only gave it two stars because there were certainly some good points that I found interesting, but taking the book as a whole it was pretty bad at achieving what I would assume it was written to do. EDIT: I went to read some of the other reviews to see what others think. One positive thing that I certainly should have mentioned is that they do a good job of providing an Indigenous perspective on the supply chain side of the green movement. Global capitalism has a way of extracting resources from regions without any concern of the people that live there, and this certainly has to be a concern when rare earth minerals will be essential for a green transition.”

About Kate Aronoff

Kate Aronoff is a Fellow at the Type Media Center and a Contributing Writer at the Intercept. She is the co-editor of We Own the Future and author of The New Denialism. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, In These Times, and Dissent.

Alyssa Battistoni is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and an Editor at Jacobin. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, n+1, the Nation, Jacobin, In These Times, Dissent, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Daniel Aldana Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Nature, the Nation, Jacobin, Public Books, Dissent, and NACLA.

Thea Riofrancos is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College and the author of Resource Radicals. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, n+1, Jacobin, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dissent, and In These Times. She serves on the steering committee of DSA’s Ecosocialist Working Group.