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    Re: What exactly is the Green New Deal? Archived Message

    Posted by margo on April 24, 2019, 6:43 pm, in reply to "Re: What exactly is the Green New Deal?"

    Thanks for the response. Yes, I agree there are a lot of links, and some speculation, I've barely scratched the surface of the articles and will read another time. Cory Morningstar is a decent Canadian journalist who's written for CounterPunch, etc, so may be worth pursuing. The video of economist Spash I linked to here is one of her links. He gave that talk in 2010: the point is that the G8, G20, Davos attendees and associated economists etc have been talking about these issues for years: the Green New Deal hasn't risen fresh out of a vacuum, so I am just curious as to what's the thinking behind it , who drives it and who steers it... because it certainly will go global and have global implications? Some new policies will no doubt need to be driven through, world-wide. We probably need to pay close attention to who says what, in terms of solutions and policies.

    Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion look great and their awareness-raising is phenomenal and much needed. They need to be supported, regardless.
    I agree there's a tendency to discredit one person and then conflate and discredit a movement eg Assange. That tendency should be guarded against. This isn't a binary, either-or issue. We're all human: no one and no movement is perfect,even though media like to hold certain people and movements to a fantasy standard of perfection, the better to knock them down and discredit them.
    I don't see Thunberg as discredited here: she's the real thing. Morningstar implies Thunberg may be utilised to some degree by certain powerful groups. Are certain groups (Davos, US Democrats, British Parliament, corporates keen to 'greenwash' themselves etc) keen to gain a measure of influence over burgeoning, youthful activist groups, for their own self-serving reasons? Yes, they no doubt are.

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