{"id":138736,"date":"2019-08-12T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=138736"},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T10:13:28","slug":"the-politics-and-potential-of-the-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/08\/the-politics-and-potential-of-the-green-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics and Potential of the Green New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

10 Jul 2019 – A Green New Deal in the US could help break corporate power and control over economic decision<\/em>\u2010<\/em>making, design a just transition for workers, and reimagine neighbourhoods and communities.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we have less than 12 years to slash our emissions in half to stand a chance of staying under 1.5 degrees Celsius average global temperature rise. It\u2019s worth noting that those are global emissions \u2013 which means that, to keep the transition equitable, the Global North should be moving to cut emissions much faster still. \u201cThere is no documented historic precedent\u201d, for the rapid action and scale necessary to curb climate change, wrote scientists in the report.1<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cTwelve years\u201d rang as a rallying cry for the roughly two hundred young people from the Sunrise Movement who occupied Democratic Party leader representative Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D\u2010CA) office in November, just after the 2018 midterm elections swept the Democrats back into power in the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cthese youth articulated a desire for the Green New Deal to shepherd in a new economy designed by and serving communities on the frontlines of climate change\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These young activists demanded a \u2018Green New Deal\u2019: a bold and ambitious plan to address climate change and inequality, commensurate with the scale of the systemic problems facing the US and the world. Disillusioned by worsening climate impacts on their communities, crippling amounts of student debt, rising inequality, stagnating wages, and pollution choking their neighbourhoods in the name of profit, these youth articulated a desire for the Green New Deal to shepherd in a new economy designed by and serving communities on the frontlines of climate change.<\/p>\n

Alongside the youth of Sunrise stood the soon\u2010to\u2010be\u2010youngest member of Congress, newly elected rep.\u2010elect Alexandria Ocasio\u2010Cortez (D\u2010NY). Bucking both convention and hierarchy, she confronted her own party\u2019s leadership on one of her first days in Washington, DC, calling for an end to climate incrementalism and deadly inaction. Within days, the Green New Deal went from a little\u2010known rhetorical device to full\u2010fledged game\u2010changing proposal \u2013 garnering endorsements from across the progressive spectrum and being routinely attacked and disingenuously mischaracterised on Fox News and in the right\u2010wing media.2<\/a><\/p>\n

What is the Green New Deal? It is not, and cannot be, simply about reducing carbon emissions. It must be ambitious enough to construct entirely new national institutions, reorganise sectors of our society, transform extractive industry into real wealth creation for communities, and rigorously rewrite the rules of the game for business and the economy at large. The non\u2010binding Green New Deal resolution introduced by Rep. Ocasio\u2010Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D\u2010MA) in February outlines the values that could drive the Green New Deal and some possible approaches to achieve them, but does not dive into details or specific policies. The short document outlines various goals for a 10\u2010year mobilisation, including access to clean air, water, health, affordable food, and nature for all; energy from \u201cclean, renewable, zero\u2010emission energy sources\u201d; millions of jobs with fair pay and the protected right to organise; massive upgrades in America\u2019s disinvested infrastructure; access to affordable and safe housing; and retrofits for every building in the country.3<\/a><\/p>\n

While its rise to prominence may seem surprising, the Green New Deal is informed by a broader, radical new politics rising in the American left. A new, insurgent group of Democrats elected in the wake of Donald Trump\u2019s shocking 2016 victory is tired of the slow, rightward drift of the Democratic Party, and is pushing the envelope on a broad agenda \u2013 from the Green New Deal, to \u2018Medicare\u2010for\u2010All\u2019, to free college tuition. \u201cThere is going to be a war within the party\u201d, states Waleed Shahid, strategic director at progressive group Justice Democrats. \u201cWe are going to lean into it\u201d.4<\/a> Though not without substantial backlash from the party\u2019s neoliberal establishment, the tactic seems to be working. Whereas approaches like Medicare\u2010for\u2010All or free college were polarising subjects in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, they now stand as a litmus test for 2020 presidential hopefuls.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever price tag the Green New Deal may incur, the cost of inaction is incalculably higher, both in US dollars and human lives\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The American right, led by the Republican Party, has already sought to undermine the ambitious climate plan, raising concern at its supposed costs and fearmongering with hyperbolic warnings that it would \u201ctake away your car, take away your airplane flights\u201d.5<\/a> One conservative think tank \u2018estimated\u2019 the cost of a Green New Deal could be upwards of $93 trillion \u2013 although how it came by such a number is unknown, given that no specific policies have yet been outlined.6<\/a> Centrist pundits and policymakers, on the other hand, have generally been wary and called for more incremental steps to tinker with the system rather than reorganise it.7<\/a> Some have also criticised the Green New Deal\u2019s scale and ambition, dismissing components like universal health care as unassociated with the mission of decarbonisation.8<\/a><\/p>\n

Whatever price tag the Green New Deal may incur, the cost of inaction is incalculably higher, both in US dollars and human lives. Even with warming at 1.5 degrees or less, the World Health Organization expects that more than 350 million people will be exposed to deadly heat by 2050, with hundreds of millions more at risk if warming passes this mark.9<\/a> Moreover, the United States\u2019 existing political and economic system\u2014like much of the Western world\u2014is built on a foundation of racism and exploitation of slave labor. For centuries, the U.S. has extracted the labor of, neglected, and disinvested communities of color. Structured correctly, the major investments of a Green New Deal could fundamentally alter this system and begin to partially repair this toxic legacy.<\/p>\n

Learning from History<\/h3>\n

The reality beneath the hysteria is that the US has undertaken projects at this scale before. The Green New Deal takes its name from another transformative period of US history \u2013 the \u2018New Deal\u2019 of the 1920s, when Franklin D Roosevelt\u2019s government took swift action to address the Great Depression.10<\/a> It was a time of significant government intervention to correct the failures of the capitalist system, serious experimentation with structural alternatives and institutions, and the willingness to take on risk in exchange for massive benefits. The original New Deal electrified 90 per cent of rural America, providing power to those who investor\u2010owned utilities didn\u2019t see as profitable and hence neglected.11<\/a><\/p>\n

The New Deal employed three million workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps, who planted over 220 million trees and stabilised major parts of the Great Plains and Midwest in which dust storms had rendered thousands of farms useless.12<\/a> It established strict new financial regulations and stabilised the banking sector for a generation. It gave workers new and enhanced rights to organise and unionise, and established widespread unemployment insurance, support for the disabled, and the federal Social Security Administration.13<\/a> Perhaps most importantly and most relevantly to a Green New Deal directly opposed by the extremely powerful fossil fuel industry, the New Deal also directly confronted many of the country\u2019s richest and most powerful individuals and corporate interests \u2013 and defeated them.14<\/a><\/p>\n

During the second world war, the US government planned and executed a massive economic mobilisation, including price and wage controls, production quotas, and the direct seizure of factories, services, land, and other assets. \u201cAmerica\u2019s response to World War II was the most extraordinary mobilisation of an idle economy in the history of the world\u201d, Pulitzer Prize\u2010winning historian Doris Goodwin recalls. \u201cDuring the war 17 million new civilian jobs were created, industrial productivity increased by 96 per cent\u2026 By 1944, as a result of wage increases and overtime pay, real weekly wages before taxes in manufacturing were 50 per cent higher than in 1939. The war also created entire new technologies, industries, and associated human skills\u201d.15<\/a> To believe the US cannot effectuate a similar response to the existential crisis of climate change, less than 80 years later, reveals a dangerous lack of imagination.<\/p>\n

While the original New Deal created millions of jobs and established beloved programmes still thriving today, it is also situated within an American legacy of racism. Many Indigenous tribes\u2019 land rights were violated to pave the way for mega\u2010projects. The residential security maps created by the New Deal\u2019s Home Owners\u2019 Loan Corporation (HOLC) ushered in the practice of \u2018redlining\u2019,16<\/a> which deepened segregation and cut off communities of color from home ownership opportunities for decades.17<\/a> The Green New Deal resolution acknowledges these past failures, stating that a primary goal is \u201cstopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialised communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low\u2010income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth\u201d.18<\/a><\/p>\n

Politics and Possibility<\/h3>\n

At its core, the concept of a Green New Deal unleashes the possibility to think big and revitalise the imagination of the American left. It provides the opportunity to begin designing a democratic economy based on real sustainability, and to rethink placing profit above all else. A Green New Deal will contain many pieces of sweeping transformative change and operate in multitudes. Three of the many overlapping potentials for a Green New Deal include upending an economy controlled by an oligarchic, corporate elite; securing a just transition and meaningful work; and transforming communities and housing systems so people can survive and thrive to build a new, people\u2010centric economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2016 alone, the fossil fuel industry spent around $260 million on political campaigns and lobbying\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First and foremost, the Green New Deal could help break corporate power and control over economic decision\u2010making. Fossil fuel corporations have historically been a leading cause of inaction on climate change. Their political power in Washington, DC (and state capitals) is legendary, as is their role in funding climate denialism.19<\/a> In 2016 alone, the fossil fuel industry spent around $260 million on political campaigns and lobbying.20<\/a> In return, it receives $20 billion in subsidies from the US each year.21<\/a> New political science research shows that the more members of Congress\u2019 staff meet with fossil fuel lobbyists or accept their political contributions, the more these staffers underestimate the public\u2019s support of climate policy.22<\/a> For this reason, when advocates were pushing for a select committee on a Green New Deal, a core condition of committee membership was rejecting campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry.<\/p>\n

But there are signs that the fossil fuel industry\u2019s power is beginning to erode in the Democratic party. New polling by a coalition of groups including Data for Progress found that 45 per cent of all Americans support their representatives rejecting fossil fuel money, including strong majorities of Democrats and independent voters.23<\/a> More and more politicians, including presidential hopefuls like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D\u2010NY), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D\u2010MA), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I\u2010VT), are rejecting fossil fuel money to assure voters that they\u2019re representing people, not billionaire polluters.24<\/a> This is more than symbolic \u2013 rejecting the influence of the fossil fuel industry makes it much more likely that politicians enacting a Green New Deal will include the necessary steps to stop industry expansion and wind down fossil fuel production in a managed, equitable fashion that protects communities and workers. 25<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the anticipated opposition of the business community, the support of organised labor will be critical to building support for a Green New Deal\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cutting out the influence of campaign contributions and lobbying is an important step, but we must also eliminate the hangover of neoliberalism embedded in US culture and build capacity for a transformational alternative. A Green New Deal could return foundational parts of the US economy back to community and public control. Energy and fossil fuel infrastructure is an instructive example. Today\u2019s utilities are largely privately\u2010owned fossil fuel\u2010based companies that viciously guard their conventional investments, exploit rates for shareholder profit, and contribute millions to campaigns to stop climate action. During the original New Deal, a huge number of cooperatively and publicly\u2010owned utilities were created through the Rural Electrification Administration to address a market failure. Through the Green New Deal, a similar agency for current\u2010day purposes could be developed, allowing municipalities, communities, or even entire states to take back their energy grid.26<\/a><\/p>\n

Second, the Green New Deal could help design a just transition for workers. It could make investments to create good jobs and provide a clear transition plan to a carbon\u2010free, thriving economy where people have meaningful work. In an era in which unions are constantly targeted and stripped of power, the labor movement has understandably been vigilant in protecting its current territory, making it wary of the ongoing energy transition.27<\/a> Although renewable sector jobs are growing exponentially \u2013 solar jobs have grown 168 per cent in the past seven years \u2013 they have largely not been unionised, and feature much lower pay than current fossil fuel jobs.28<\/a> Given the anticipated opposition of the business community, the support of organised labor will be critical to building support for a Green New Deal, both in the Democratic Party and more generally. To win labour\u2019s support as well as strengthen a safe and secure working sector, a Green New Deal must centre and prioritise explicit pro\u2010labour policies. If it does so, a Green New Deal could be a critical vehicle to rebuild the power of unions in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Green New Deal could give us the opportunity to tackle crumbling infrastructure, eliminate discriminatory housing practices, and build healthy, vibrant communities\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to embedding pro\u2010labour policies in all parts of a Green New Deal, a jobs guarantee could be enacted to provide everyone with the right to work. Such a guarantee would legally obligate the federal government to provide a job at a livable wage to every member of society who wants one. The Green New Deal\u2019s promise to totally restructure much of the economy will require a huge quantity of work hours.29<\/a> This type of jobs programme would not only push corporations to provide higher labour standards to attract talent \u2013 it would also give unions a better bargaining position for contracts. A jobs guarantee would not only provide the work hours and power to rebuild our infrastructure for sustainability, it would also give workers the freedom to leave jobs where they feel threatened, harassed, or stuck without an alternative. Tied together, a jobs guarantee and more protected rights to organise would be major steps to building the equitable workforce needed for a just transition to a carbon\u2010free economy.<\/p>\n

Third, a Green New Deal would be a huge infrastructure bill with the potential to re\u2010centre how neighbourhoods interact. Not only is US infrastructure old, dilapidated, and disinvested, but it is also firmly entrenched in a carbon\u2010based economy. Research shows that housing inequality is one of the biggest contributors to economic inequality, in addition to the building sector itself acting as a major carbon emitter.30<\/a> A Green New Deal could give us the opportunity to tackle crumbling infrastructure, eliminate discriminatory housing practices, and build healthy, vibrant communities with shared and collective ownership.<\/p>\n

In the original New Deal, the Resettlement Administration designed entire towns based on the Garden Cities of To<\/em>\u2010<\/em>Morrow<\/em> concept.31<\/a> Contrasting the suburban surge of the 1920s, this new approach sought to create cohesive communities, with townhouses and apartment buildings in proximity to workplaces and downtown grocery stores to develop \u2018social cohesion\u2019.32<\/a> Importantly, though, infrastructure was intentionally built to segregate along class and colour lines.33<\/a> As just one example, the Resettlement Authority refused to let Black families settle in Greenbelt, Maryland \u2013 one of the towns designed by the Authority and built with Black labour.34<\/a> Over time, those segregation lines have been reinforced by neglect and transitioned into hotspots of environmental injustice, with polluting infrastructure and highways cutting through Black backyards.35<\/a> A Green New Deal is an opportunity to design away racist infrastructure and build for carbon\u2010free resiliency.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither the US nor the UK can go at it alone; we must be in relationship with one another, pushing the boundaries of our politics to demand climate and economic justice across borders\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Daniel Aldana Cohen writes about a goal of 10 million no\u2010carbon homes in 10 years, using social housing as a foundational approach. \u201cA huge build\u2010out of high quality, beautifully designed, meticulously financed public housing, with diversity of design and governance structure, would meet millions of people\u2019s housing needs and create tens of thousands of skilled jobs in the no\u2010carbon construction sector for decades\u201d.36<\/a> This blends the deep needs of retrofitting for energy efficiency, building out necessary affordable housing as climate change and flooding shifts realistic housing location, and achieving accessible housing through social ownership in a time when homeownership or even being able to pay rent is often difficult to achieve for many people.37<\/a><\/p>\n

Solidarity Abroad<\/h3>\n

As momentum for transformative climate action spreads across the globe, this energy for a Green New Deal has not been constrained to the borders of the United States. Nor should it be, since climate chaos doesn\u2019t respect borders and must be collectively acted upon. In the UK, the Green Party\u2019s single member of parliament, Caroline Lucas, has co\u2010sponsored a bill on the Green New Deal, while Labour Party members recently announced a campaign for a Green New Deal to decarbonise the economy, create green jobs, and invest in public infrastructure. As UK group Labour for the New Deal puts it: \u201cClimate change is fundamentally about class, because it means chaos for the many while the few profit\u201d.38<\/a><\/p>\n

Like the US, the UK has spent a generation struggling with both the real impacts and mental constraints of a system based on austerity. Similar as well is a new, vibrant wave of political energy willing to imagine sweeping action to tackle the power structures that have facilitated climate inaction, phase out the fossil fuel industry with a careful transition to protect communities and workers, and redistribute wealth. Neither the US nor the UK can go at it alone; we must be in relationship with one another, pushing the boundaries of our politics to demand climate and economic justice across borders. We have less than twelve years to fight for 1.5 degrees. We can and must cross\u2010pollinate and learn from each other\u2019s experiences to achieve the transformative change we need.<\/p>\n

NOTES:<\/h3>\n

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\uf0b7\u00a0 3 US Congress, House (2019) Recognizing the duty of the federal government to create a Green New Deal,<\/em> 116th Congress, 1st session, introduced in House 7 February 2019. https:\/\/apps.npr.org\/documents\/document.html?id=5731829-Ocasio-Cortez-Green-New-Deal-Resolution<\/a><\/p>\n

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\uf0b7\u00a0 7 Editorial Board (2019) \u2018Want a Green New Deal? Here\u2019s a better one\u2019, Washington Post<\/em>. https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/want-a-green-new-deal-heres-a-better-one\/2019\/02\/24\/2d7e491c-36d2-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.ce7e1b8aee0b<\/a><\/p>\n

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\uf0b7\u00a0 10 Waxman O B (2019) \u2018How FDR\u2019s New Deal laid the groundwork for the Green New Deal \u2013 in good ways and bad\u2019, Time<\/em>. http:\/\/time.com\/5524723\/green-new-deal-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\uf0b7\u00a0 12 Woolner D B (2010) \u2018FDR and the New Deal response to an environmental catastrophe\u2019, article, Roosevelt Institute. http:\/\/rooseveltinstitute.org\/fdr-and-new-deal-response-environmental-catastrophe\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\uf0b7\u00a0 14 Roosevelt Institute (2009) \u2018How FDR took on the forces of wealth and power\u2019, blog post. http:\/\/rooseveltinstitute.org\/how-fdr-took-forces-wealth-and-power\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\uf0b7\u00a0 16 \u201cThe Home Owners\u2019 Loan Corporation (HOLC), created \u201cResidential Security\u201d maps of major American cities. These maps document how loan officers, appraisers and real estate professionals evaluated mortgage lending risk during the era immediately before the surge of suburbanization in the 1950\u2019s. Neighborhoods considered high risk or \u201cHazardous\u201d were often \u201credlined\u201d by lending institutions, denying them access to capital investment which could improve the housing and economic opportunity of residents.\u201d Mitchell B (2018) HOLC \u2018redlining\u2019 maps: The persistent structure of segregation and economic inequality<\/em>, National Community Reinvestment Coalition [NCRC]. https:\/\/ncrc.org\/holc\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 17 Ibid<\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 18 US Congress, House, Recognizing the duty of the federal government to create a Green New Deal,<\/em> 116th Congress, 1st session, introduced in House 7 February 2019. https:\/\/apps.npr.org\/documents\/document.html?id=5731829-Ocasio-Cortez-Green-New-Deal-Resolution<\/a><\/p>\n

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\uf0b7\u00a0 20 Oil Change International (accessed 10 April 2019) \u2018No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge\u2019, webpage. http:\/\/nofossilfuelmoney.org<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 21 Redman J (2019) \u2018Dirty energy dominance: dependent on denial\u2019, Oil Change International<\/em>. http:\/\/priceofoil.org\/2017\/10\/03\/dirty-energy-dominance-us-subsidies\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 22 Hertel\u2010Fernandez A, Mildenberger M and Stokes L C (2018) \u2018Legislative staff and representation in Congress\u2019, American Political Science Review<\/em>, 113(1). https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/american-political-science-review\/article\/legislative-staff-and-representation-in-congress\/D7735FCF39B843B9F3269FD39362FD66<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 23 Data for Progress (2019) \u2018Voters strongly support bold climate solutions\u2019, memo. https:\/\/www.dataforprogress.org\/the-green-new-deal-is-popular<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 24 No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge (accessed 10 April 2019) \u2018Presidential Candidate Signers\u2019, webpage. http:\/\/nofossilfuelmoney.org\/presidential-signers\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\uf0b7\u00a0 26 Koeppel J, Veazy L and Bozuwa J (2019) \u2018Community ownership of power administration\u2019, Next System Project,<\/em> article. https:\/\/thenextsystem.org\/copa<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 27 Biest P (2019) \u2018The AFL\u2010CIO has no love for the Green New Deal\u2019, Splinter<\/em>. https:\/\/splinternews.com\/the-afl-cio-has-no-love-for-the-green-new-deal-1833240108<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 28 The Solar Foundation (2018) National Solar Job Census<\/em>. https:\/\/www.thesolarfoundation.org\/national\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 29 Carlock G, Mangan E and McElwee S (2018) A Green New Deal<\/em>, Data for Progress. http:\/\/filesforprogress.org\/pdfs\/Green_New_Deal.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 30 Florida R (2018) \u2018Is housing inequality the main driver off economic inequality?\u2019, CityLab<\/em>. https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/equity\/2018\/04\/is-housing-inequality-the-main-driver-of-economic-inequality\/557984\/<\/a>; US Green Buildings Council (2018) \u2018Buildings and Climate\u2019, resource. https:\/\/www.eesi.org\/files\/climate.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 31 The garden cities idea was conceived by the clerk and inventor, Ebeneezer Howard. A reaction to the poor and unhealthy housing which had proliferated as a result of industrialisation and rapid growth, the concept of garden cities was of \u2018model\u2019 communities which would bring together the best features of town and country while avoiding the disadvantages of both. Chris Gossop (2016) \u2018From Garden Cities to New Towns\u2019, 42nd ISoCaRP Congress 2006. http:\/\/www.isocarp.net\/data\/case_studies\/760.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 32 Kolson Hurley A (2019) \u2018How the Green New Deal could retrofit suburbs\u2019, CityLab<\/em>. https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/perspective\/2019\/02\/green-new-deal-greenbelt-suburbs-climate-change\/582445\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 33 Nodjimbadem K (2017) \u2018The racial segregation of American cities was anything but accidental\u2019, Smithsonian<\/em>. https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/how-federal-government-intentionally-racially-segregated-american-cities-180963494\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf0b7\u00a0 34 Kolson Hurley A (2019) \u2018How the Green New Deal could retrofit suburbs\u2019, CityLab<\/em>. https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/perspective\/2019\/02\/green-new-deal-greenbelt-suburbs-climate-change\/582445\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\uf0b7\u00a0 36 Aldana Cohen D (2019) \u2018A Green New Deal for Housing\u2019, Jacobin Magazine<\/em>. https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2019\/02\/green-new-deal-housing-ocasio-cortez-climate<\/a><\/p>\n

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