Table of Contents
Introduction: The Adults in the Room Varshini Prakash vii
Editors' Note Varshini Prakash Guido Girgenti xxi
Part I The Crisis They Won't Let Us Solve 1
1 The Crisis Here and Now David Wallace-Wells 3
"Paradise-may it be all its name implies," Mikala Butson 12
2 We Didn't Start the Fire Kate Aronoff 14
3 Market Fundamentalism at the Worst Time Naomi Klein 27
4 Averting Climate Collapse Requires Confronting Racism Ian Haney López 38
Part II Green New Deal Visions and Policies 53
5 How We Got to the Green New Deal Bill McKibben 55
6 Policies and Principles of a Green New Deal Rhiana Gunn-Wright 67
7 The Economic Case for a Green New Deaf Joseph Stiglitz 94
8 A Green New Deal for the Gulf South Colette Pichon Battle 107
Money smelled like mountains of oyster shells rotting in the sun Genai Lewis 118
9 Green New Bingo Hall Julian Brave NoiseCat 120
10 A Workers' Green New Deal Mary Kay Henry 126
Part III Organizing to Win the Green New Deal 135
11 People Power and Political Power Varshini Prakash 137
Together, we part the sea Jeremy Ornstein 164
12 We Shine Bright: Organizing in Hope and Song Sara Blazevic Victoria Fernandez Dyanna Jaye Aru Shiney-Ajay 166
Blue skies in America Saya Ameli Hajebi 197
13 A Third Reconstruction for Our Common Home Rev. William J. Barber II 199
14 The Next Era of American Politics Guido Girgenti Waleed Shahid 212
15 From Protest to Primaries: The Movement in the Democratic Party Alexandra Rojas Waleed Shahid 241
16 Reviving Labor, in New Deals Old and Green Bob Master 262
Organize. Vote. Strike Varshini Prakash 278
Acknowledgments 283
Notes 287
Index 343