Dead Pundits Society

Joining us this week to talk about the importance of placing science and the labor movement at the center of the movement for a Green New Deal is Leigh Phillips, author of Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-Porn Addicts (Zero, 2015) and The People's Republic of Wal-Mart, co-authored with Michal Rozworski (Verso, 2019). We discuss the scope and shape of a socialist Green New Deal, what kind of clean energy will be necessary, and critique the way that some progressives and socialists have gone about arguing for a green ecological movement. *** To support DPS Media and help enable our continued political work, become a patron at: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** Leigh's latest writings on the topic can be found here: -"Planning the Earth System: A Call for a Global Democracy," https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-11-summer-2019/planning-the-earth-system -"The new, safer nuclear reactors that might help stop climate change," https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612940/the-new-safer-nuclear-reactors