A Green New Deal & MMT
A conversation with Greg Carlock
Greg Carlock is a researcher, essayist, and podcaster, who writes about American policy, governance, climate change, the Green New Deal (GND), and political philosophy. He is a Manager for Climate Action and Data at the World Resources Institute (WRI). He also spearheads work with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy to increase greater climate action in cities through data access, along with the development of online data tools in support of action in this space as part of WRI’s Climate Watch.
Greg is the lead author of “A Green New Deal,” an in-depth set of policy recommendations for environmental sustainability and economic security.
Mentioned:
- Report: Global warming of 1.5°C, IPCC, 2018
- Article: NY Times on IPCC 2018 Special Report
- Article: On the origins of Green New Deal
- Topic: Great Depression
- Topic: New Deal
- Article: A Warning from the Garden
- Person: Al Gore
- Film: An Inconvenient Truth
- Person: Van Jones
- Topic: Green jobs
- Topic: Green Party on GND
- Person: Ann Pettifor
- Report: A Green New Deal, New Economics Foundation
- Org: Sunrise Movement
- Plan: Sunrise Movement Strategic Plan
- Person: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Person: Nancy Pelosi
- Topic: Select Committee for a Green New Deal
- Video: Solving Our Climate Crisis, a National Town Hall
- Article: On the limits of removing carbon out of the air
- Topic: Carbon capture and storage
- Concept: Government of the people, by the people, and for the people
- Topic: Second Bill of Rights
- Book: Marketing the Moon, David Meerman Scott & Richard Jurek
- Topic: Apollo Program
- Article: What Is a Moonshot?
- Person: Peter Thiel
- Book: Zero to One, Peter Thiel
- Article: Republican Mayor Dale Ross on his focus on renewable energy
- Report: A Green New Deal, Data for Progress
- Topic: Redlining
- Topic: Socioeconomic mobility
- Topic: Livable wage
- Topic: Job guarantee
- Topic: Just (Job) Transition
- Article: We Can Pay for a Green New Deal
- Person: Stephanie Kelton
- Person: Andres Bernal
- Topic: Fiat money
- Topic: Gold standard
- Topic: Inflation
- Topic: Modern monetary theory (MMT)
- Person: Warren Mosler
- Person: Bill Mitchell
- Article: Just When Should We Start Worrying About Deficits?