A Planet to Win, co-authored with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, explores the political potential and concrete first steps of a Green New Deal. A Planet to Win argues that 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 fossil capital and the super-rich.
In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics. A Planet to Win looks at climate change as it is embedded in patterns of daily life, from where people live to what kinds of work they do. It calls for dismantling the fossil fuel industry, building beautiful landscapes of renewable energy, and guaranteeing climate-friendly work, 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.
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“A dazzling array of constructive projects to accompany the green transition's doling out of economic retribution. A Planet to Win is the American kernel of a vision for a post-carbon future, and its optimism is inspiring.”
Quinn Slobodian, Foreign Policy
“Urgent, clear-eyed, and energizing, this book is a powerful example of the radical collaborative thinking we desperately need to avoid climate dystopia and win a world where the many can survive and thrive.”
Astra Taylor, Director of What Is Democracy?
“An excellent orientation to the ecological crisis we face and the Green New Deal that is the necessary start of our response. This book puts its finger right on the pulse of our moment.”
Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Ministry for the Future
“The climate crisis presents an enormous, existential challenge to our species. But we don’t have time to be overwhelmed. The enormity of the task requires even bigger ideas, strategies, and tactics. In this book, some of our sharpest, most lucid voices on climate make a critical intervention in the burgeoning movement to save our planet. Read their book and join the struggle.”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
“A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal is...refreshingly optimistic and future-oriented, filled with specific ideas for how to decarbonize the energy system, build affordable housing and public transportation, expand parks and public recreation facilities, and renegotiate global trade regimes so that human rights and public health are properly valued."
Eric Klinenberg, The New York Review of Books
“This moment demands that we build more infrastructure and public works than we’ve ever built, faster and better than we’ve ever built them…that we reorient how we relate to one another, to capital, and to the planet. The only hope we have of balancing those needs with the desire to live up to democratic principles is through a Green New Deal. And no book offers more to help us translate that idea into better lives than A Planet to Win."
Billy Fleming, Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews (select)
Contrasting visions of the green new deal. Environmental Politics. November 2020.
Overcoming the Imaginative Asphyxiation of Climate Protest. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. October 2020.
The Politics of Imagination. Science for the People. Fall 2020.
After the Charcoal Economy. Sydney Review of Books. August 2020.
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Antipode. July 2020.
A Stimulus Plan for the Planet. Los Angeles Review of Books. May 2020.
The Great Green Hope. New York Review of Books. April 2020.
On Everyday Utopias, Public Imagination, and Breaking the Fossil Fuel Industry. The Trouble. March 2020.
The Green New Deal: Promise and Limitations. Radical Philosophy Review. Spring 2020.
When the Green New Deal Goes Global. Foreign Policy. January 2020.
Platforms for a Green New Deal. Resilience. November 2019.
Translations
A Planet to Win: Perché ci serve un Green New Deal. Afterword by Maurizio Acerbo. Roma: Momo Edizioni.
Um planeta a conquistar: a urgência de um Green New Deal. Preface by Raquel Rolnik. Translation: Aline Scátola. São Paulo: Autonomia Literária.