> On Apr 25, 2024, at 3:53 PM, Charles Keener via groups.io
> <ckeener20005=aol....@groups.io> wrote:
>
> -An Interview with Jill Stein - CounterPunch.org
>
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/an-interview-with-jill-stein/ is
predictable and boring. Apart from their position on Ukraine, their Green New
Deal, https://www.gp.org/green_new_deal, promises to expose the next great rift
on the international left. From their web page,
https://www.gp.org/green_new_deal:
"The national Green Party platform calls for the following:
• Enact an emergency Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change, revive
the economy and make wars for oil obsolete. Initiate a WWII-scale national
mobilization to halt climate change, the greatest threat to humanity in our
history. Create 20 million jobs by transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy
by 2030, and investing in public transit, sustainable (regenerative)
agriculture, conservation and restoration of critical infrastructure, including
ecosystems.
• Implement a Just Transition that empowers those communities and workers most
impacted by climate change and the transition to a green economy. Ensure that
any worker displaced by the shift away from fossil fuels will receive full
income and benefits as they transition to alternative work.
• Enact energy democracy based on public, community and worker ownership of our
energy system. Treat energy as a human right.
• Redirect research funds from fossil fuels into renewable energy and
conservation. Build a nationwide smart electricity grid that can pool and store
power from a diversity of renewable sources, giving the nation clean,
democratically-controlled, energy.
• End destructive energy extraction and associated infrastructure: fracking,
tar sands, offshore drilling, oil trains, mountaintop removal, natural gas
pipelines, and uranium mines. Halt any investment in fossil fuel
infrastructure, including natural gas, and phase out all fossil fuel power
plants. Phase out nuclear power and end nuclear subsidies. End all subsidies
for fossil fuels and impose a greenhouse gas fee/tax to charge polluters for
the damage they have created.”
This strategy is to greatly increase resource throughput for "transitioning to
100% clean renewable energy by 2030." In other words, things are going to get
worse with the promise that it will get better, but first we will need to to
increase the production and burning of fossil fuels and spin up global supply
chains to increase the production of "green" commodities. The argument against
this is that it makes matters worse while strengthening the capitalist sectors
that are responsible for the crisis. Nationalization would address that.
There are better GND proposals from socialists,
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/49515/an-ecosocialist-strategy-to-win-the-future
that address taking control of industries from capitalists through
nationalization and other means to reduce their power to pollute, bribe and
pollute. The better GND proposals are class-struggle based and don't seek to
create jobs in the overdeveloped countries like the US because there are
already too many of them (taking a page from BB's notebook).
Mark
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