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Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson

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The Green New Deal Is a Deliberate Rhetorical Rationalism

I love the green new deal for its boldness in evoking all this history in a positive way going forward. I was always in favor of a united front, that the project for americans is to pull the democratic party to the left. Can climate change present the same sense of horror an emergency? That's an open question. If the revolution were to come, it could happen in the 20 twenties,. In order not to torture the earth and destroy the basis of human civilization, we are going to have to seize the economic systemand nationalize it. But it would be international, because all the nations would have to do it. It's scary when you put it in as those terms

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