Getting to Zero Emissions: “In These Times” climate issue launch

Release party for “In These Times” magazine’s special issue on climate change. A panel of climate experts and organizers discuss what an equitable and democratic Green New Deal could look like, in New York City and beyond.

The Green New Deal offers, perhaps for the first time, an ambitious and potentially transformative framework for reaching zero emissions by 2030. Yet it’s only a framework, a set of goals and principles. This latest issue of “In These Times” aims to fill in that framework, inviting expert progressive thinkers to lay out each aspect of the political and economic change needed to achieve a just transition.

The panelists here address questions around the energy transition: What, concretely, will it take to wrest our economy off fossil fuels? After local wins such as New York City's recent Climate Mobilization Act, what can activists push for next? And, most importantly, is any of this possible under a grow-or-die, market-obsessed capitalist economy?

Featuring:

Kate Aronoff, fellow at the Type Media Center

Ashley Dawson, author of “Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change” (Verso, 2017)

Pete Sikora, climate and inequality campaigns director at New York Communities for Change

Moderated by Jamie Tyberg, development director at New York Communities for Change and co-founder of the Democratic Socialists of America Ecosocialist Working Group.

Recorded at Verso Books in Brooklyn on May 13, 2019.

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