A political solution to the biggest existential crisis.. Noam Chomsky in the "Green New Deal"

As the world faces the crisis of the Corona pandemic, a new book draws attention to another very important existential crisis.

The recently released book "The Climate Crisis and the Global New Green Deal," American thinker and philologist Noam Chomsky and renowned economist Robert Boleyn answer questions about the global climate catastrophe, explaining what could happen if we do not take immediate action to stop carbon emissions.

In the book, Chomsky addresses the economic arguments for what he calls the "Green New Deal", how neoliberal economic policies since Ronald Reagan have led the world to the current mess, and why the proposed new project will be beneficial to American workers.

From the Vietnam War to the drone strikes under Barack Obama, the authors chart the course for the catastrophic consequences of uncontrolled climate change, after Chomsky spent decades criticizing power and presenting himself as an outspoken anti-war American leftist activist, from the Vietnam War to Barack Obama's drone strikes, preferring to line up with the "libertarian socialist" camp, and sharply criticizing both major American parties.

Predictions that exhaust the imagination

Chomsky and Pauline show how predictions of a hotter planet tire the imagination;

Vast areas of land will become uninhabitable, plagued by severe weather, drought, rising seas and crop failure.

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

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 eagerly devoting themselves to destroying the prospects of organized human life, the authors put it.

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

We must completely stop burning fossil fuels for energy production within the next 30 years at most;

And we have to do it 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 quite realistic in terms of its purely technical and economic advantages. The real question is: Is this politically feasible?

Chomsky and Pauline explore how we can build the political power to make a Global Green New Deal a reality.

On the occasion of the book’s release, Chomsky conducted several interviews with American websites from his home through the Zoom application, and in his meeting with Fox, the American thinker said that if global warming is an automatic result of capitalism, we must bid farewell to each other because confronting it is very urgent.

"I would like to beat capitalism, but it's not in the immediate timescale. Global warming has to be faced primarily within the framework of existing institutions, and modified as necessary. That is the problem we face."

Chomsky argues that when we approach human nature, the first thing to remember is that we know nothing about it, there is little we know and the rest is all guesswork.

For 75 years, Chomsky says, "we've been living in a situation unique in human history: we have the means to destroy organized human life on Earth, that wasn't available before."

And he continues, "We also have the tools and means to overcome this; the Second World War 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 us assume that humans are able to look Until tomorrow."

A reading of recent history

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

Now, if you want to ask what is happening now, I think we have come under the attack of neoliberal assault, which has been devastating, and whose fundamental design leads to high concentrations of wealth and power in unaccountable hands, and exponential growth of essentially predatory, mostly financial institutions; Feelings of anger, resentment and mistrust of institutions in many parts of the world, which has some justification, and this is a breeding ground for demagogues."

"But it's also an opportunity for confrontation, and we see it everywhere from the streets of America, to the mutual aid groups in Brazil; humans are capable of many things."

Chomsky believes that the impact of pollution is primarily directed at harming the poor and the dispossessed, and says that "When the Trump administration removes pollution controls from factories, who gets hurt because of that? It's people who live near polluting factories because they can't live anywhere else. If we end the crisis, we are We help them, so there are a lot of things that happen almost automatically as a result of the Green New Deal policy, and it can be modified to make it more."

One of the main issues of climate justice is dealing with the global south;

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

The movement against warming

In his interview with the Daily Journal, Chomsky says that people are only able to imagine what is right before 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, as well as it should be at the forefront of the movement to modify 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' society, 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 forms of organized human life on the Earth,” he told the American magazine.

However, Chomsky sees 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 of its predecessors, stressing that it is a sign of fundamental changes in popular consciousness, and concludes By saying that there is hope for the massive destruction to come, but not if the people give up.

Biography of "American Dissident"

In his scientific field, Chomsky is described as "the father of modern linguistics" and the author of the theory of "generative grammar", which is considered the most important contribution to the field of linguistic theories in the 20th century. He has repeatedly modified his linguistic theory, but while preserving its basic premises, and is considered the originator of the theory The Chomsky sequence of linguistic analysis.

In the political field, Chomsky was interested early in anarchist philosophy and expanded his criticism of liberal capitalism and propaganda in the media, in addition to American foreign policy, and therefore he does not hesitate to describe himself as an "anarchist syndicalist, a liberal socialist."

He supported the student protest movement in 1968, and was arrested several times. Then US President Richard Nixon included him in the list of "enemies of the country."

Chomsky believes that the attacks of September 11, 2001 became famous only because they were an external act against the West, noting that no one remembers that there was "September 11" 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, because of the destruction it left behind in 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 hegemony over the world.

Chomsky visited the Gaza Strip in October 2012, in solidarity with its besieged people, and he always stresses that Israel pursues policies that increase the risks facing it to the fullest extent. It will eventually lead to its destruction, which is not impossible.”