"On Fire" 그리고 실수로 잘못 고른 책

Naomi Klein, "On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal" (2019)

 

아래는 이 책 본문에서:

 

In scale if not specifics, the Green New Deal proposal takes

its inspiration from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's original New Deal,

which responded to the misery and breakdown of the Great Depression

with flurry of policies and public investments. (p. 21)

 

Climate change is a collective problem, and it demands collective actions.

One of the key areas ... is big-ticket investment designed to reduce

our emissions on a mass scale. This means subways, strrecars, and

light-rail systems that are not only everywhere but affordable to

everyone, and maybe even free; energy-efficient affordable housing

along those transit lines; smart electrical grids carrying

renewable energy. (p. 81)

 

In Paris, our governments ... agreed to a goal of keeping warming

below 2ºC while pursuing "efforts to limit the temperature increase

to 1.5ºC." ... And what we now know ... is that if we were to burn all

the oil, gas, and coal from fields and mines already in production,

we would very likely pass 2ºC of warming and

would certainly pass 1.5ºC. (pp.198-9)

 

As the Gurdian's George Monbiot puts in, our planet's resources

can provide us with "private sufficiency and public luxury," in the

form of "wonderful parks and playgrounds, public sports centers

and swimming pools, galleries, allotments and public transport

networks." The earth cannot, however, sustain the impossible

dream of private luxury  for all. (p. 265)

 

Resistence and change often begin in art. [-- Ursula K. Le Guin] (p. 274)

 

[R]olling out a Green New Deal would have large costs.... The European

Spring proposal for a Green New Deal ... calls for a global minimum

corporate tax rates.... it also calls for a reversal of monetary orthodoxy,

with public investment floating green bonds, supported by central

banks.... [T]here are all kinds of ways to raise financing ... that ...

shifts the burden to those most responsible for climate pollution....

We know ... that a whopping 71 percent of total greenhouse

gas  emissions since 1988 can be traced to just one

hundred corporate and state fossilfuel giants.... If the military

budgets of the top ten military spenders globally were cut by 25

percent, that would free up $325 billion annually. (pp. 282-4)

 

The whole point is to design policies that ... simultaneously lower

emmisions and lower the economic strain on working people. (p. 288)

 

A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

 

Christopher Flavelle :

6 Aspects of American Life Threatened by Climate Change

 

 

 

Daniel Kahneman, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (2011)

 

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만하지 않겠다. 오늘 도서관에 기증했다.

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