At a time when the world is facing the crisis of the Corona pandemic, a new book draws attention to another very important existential crisis;

The recent book "The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal" was published, in which the American thinker and linguist Noam Chomsky and the famous economist Robert Boleyn answer questions about the global climate disaster, explaining what would happen if we did not take immediate action to stop carbon emissions.

In the new book, Chomsky addresses the economic arguments related to what he calls the "Green New Deal", how the neoliberal economic policies since former US President Ronald Reagan brought the world to the fate of the current chaos, and why the proposed new project would be beneficial to American workers.

The authors chart the trajectory of the catastrophic consequences of uncontrolled climate change, and provide a realistic blueprint for change, after Chomsky spent decades criticizing power and introducing himself as an outspoken left-wing American anti-war activist, from the Vietnam War to the drone strikes of Barack Obama, preferring to line up With the "libertarian socialist" camp, and fiercely critical of both major American parties.

Predictions stretch the imagination

Chomsky and Pauline explain how predictions of a hotter planet exhaust the imagination.

Vast areas of land will become uninhabitable, afflicted by severe weather, drought, rising sea levels and crop failure.

They argue against the misplaced fear of economic disaster and unemployment arising from the transition to a green economy, and show how this false anxiety promotes denial of the climate crisis.

The ongoing environmental crisis is unique in human history;

It is a real existential crisis, and those who are alive today will decide the fate of humanity.

Meanwhile, the leaders of the most powerful nation in human history are dedicating themselves with passion to destroying the horizons of organized human life, in the words of the authors.

At the same time, there is a solution at hand, and that is the Green New Deal.

We have to completely stop burning fossil fuels to produce energy for the next 30 years at most.

We must do this in a way that also supports raising living standards and expanding opportunities for workers and the poor around the world. The authors consider this solution completely realistic in terms of its purely economic and technical advantages, and the real question is: Is this politically possible?

Chomsky and Pauline discuss how we can build political power to make a new green global deal a reality.

On the occasion of the book’s publication, Chomsky conducted several conversations with American websites from his home using the Zoom app, and in his interview with Fox, the American thinker said that if global warming was an automatic result of capitalism, then we must say goodbye to each other because confronting it is very urgent.

"I would like to beat capitalism, but it is not within the short timeframe. Global warming must be confronted mainly within the framework of existing institutions, and adjusted as necessary. This is the problem we are facing," he added.

Chomsky believes that when we deal with human nature the first thing we must remember is that we know nothing about it, there is little that we know and the rest is all speculation.

For 75 years, Chomsky says, "We have been living in a unique situation in human history; we have the means to destroy organized human life on Earth, this was not possible before."

"We also have the tools and means to overcome this; World War II showed that with existing institutions it was possible to mobilize resources on a scale far beyond what is needed today, and very effectively. So let's use what is available, and let's assume that humans are able to see." Until after tomorrow. "

A recent history reading

Chomsky says that history teaches us that we do not have a clear picture of the future, and he set an example in Germany, which in the twenties of the last century was the height of Western civilization in science, arts and even democracy in the German Republic of Weimar (it was established between 1919 and 1933), but 10 years later it was the worst place In the history of mankind, as he put it.

Now, if you want to ask what is happening now, I think we have come under the attack of neoliberal aggression, which has been devastating, and its fundamental design results in high concentrations of wealth and power in unaccountable hands, and the tremendous growth of mainly predatory, mostly salty, institutions. Feelings of anger, resentment and distrust of institutions in many parts of the world, which has some justification, and this is fertile space for mobs. "

"But it is also an opportunity for confrontation, and we see this everywhere from the streets of America, to mutual aid groups in Brazil," he added. "Human beings are capable of many things."

Chomsky believes that the impact of pollution is mainly directed towards hurting the poor and the disadvantaged, and says that “when the Trump administration removes pollution controls from factories, who is hurt because of that? They are people who live near polluted factories because they cannot live anywhere else. If we end the crisis, we are. We help them, so there are a lot of (egalitarian) things that happen almost automatically as a result of the Green New Deal policy, and can be modified to make it more. "

One of the key issues for climate justice is engagement with the Global South.

That is, people who did not really contribute to the problem, but are now suffering from it more than anyone else, and this matter has been discussed since the Paris negotiations, but the Republican Party has refused to provide even the minimal assistance that would be necessary for poor countries.

Movement against warming

In his interview with the Daily Gestor magazine, Chomsky says that people are unable to imagine anything but what falls directly in front of their eyes, and considers that the labor movement has been at the forefront of every important work for social change and reform in modern history, and it should also be at the forefront of the movement to amend the politics of change. Current climate.

Chomsky says in the dialogue that the Democrats abandoned the working class in America 50 years ago, while the Republicans strongly oppose the workers' community, considering that the Republican Party is "worse than the Nazis who killed millions of people and committed atrocities, but Hitler did not call for the destruction of all human life organized on Earth, "he told the American magazine.

Nevertheless, Chomsky believes that there are many reasons for hope, such as the "black lives matter" movement on the streets of the United States, which he considers the largest social movement in American history with popular support beyond all that preceded it, stressing that it is a sign of fundamental changes in popular consciousness. By saying that there is hope to counteract the imminent destruction, but not if the people give up.

Biography of an "American dissident"

In the field of his scientific specialization, Chomsky is described as "the father of modern linguistics" and the author of the theory of "generative grammar", which is the most important contribution to the field of linguistic theories in the 20th century. He has several times modified his linguistic theory, but while preserving its basic axioms. He is also the founder of the theory Chomsky's "Sequence" of Linguistic Analysis.

In the political sphere, Chomsky had an early interest in anarchist philosophy and expanded his criticism of liberal capitalism and propaganda in the media, in addition to US foreign policy. Therefore, he does not hesitate to describe himself as "an anarchist syndicalist, a socialist liberal."

He supported the student protest movement in 1968, and was arrested several times, as then US President Richard Nixon included him in the list of "enemies of the country". He was also known in 1967 for his opposition to US military involvement in Vietnam through his article "The Responsibility of the Intellectuals," and he was classified within the "New Left."

Chomsky believes that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were famous only because they were an external act against the West, pointing out that no one remembers that there was "11 September" that took place in 1973, when the United States sponsored a bloody coup in Chile.

He opposed the US-British invasion of Iraq in 2003, and later said that it was that invasion that created the appropriate environment for the emergence of the Islamic State, due to the destruction of Iraqi society and the establishment of sectarianism in it.

He says that the United States fears the establishment of any real democracy in the Arab region, especially with the outbreak of the Arab Spring revolutions and the collapse of its hegemonic powers on the world.

Chomsky visited the Gaza Strip in October 2012, in solidarity with his besieged people, and he always emphasized that Israel pursues policies that increase the risks facing it to the maximum extent, "they are policies that choose expansion at the expense of security, and lead to its moral degradation, isolation and delegitimization." This is not impossible, "which will eventually lead to its destruction."