Abstract
Within the past years, the Green New Deal (GND) became the common language for Northern climate politics, offering a seeming exit path from Northern social and ecological crises while erasing an older Northern climate discourse tied to Southern demands for climate reparations and rights to development. This Eurocentric GND has become the environmental program for an equally Eurocentric social democratic renewal. This article situates the GND in world-systemic shifts, and Northern reactions to such shifts. It situates the GND as one of three possible Eurocentric solutions to the climate crisis: a great elite transformation from above; a left-liberal “reformist” resolution; a social democratic resolution. It then elaborates a possible “People’s Green New Deal,” a revolutionary transformation focused on state sovereignty, climate debt, auto-centered development, and agriculture. Within each proposed resolution, it traces the role of the land, agriculture, and peasants.
Highlights
The Green New Deal (GND) (Markey, 2019; Ocasio-Cortez, 2019) is something like a celestial object exerting a force on discourse and politics around global climate change—inciting fear, inquiry, unease, or opportunity
Similar mechanisms pass through multilateral and traditionally Southern institutions like the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Perry, forthcoming; UNCTAD, 2019), or emerge as “pacts” from generally Northern-oriented scholars (Various, 2020) studded with buzzwords like “autonomy,” which alchemize climate debt into cheaper and agreeable debt cancellation accords and rehearse earlier fatally flawed attempts to propose North-South integration while rejecting the national question (Ahmed, 1981)
The GND in its dominant anti-racist green Keynesian formulation emerges as one resolution—if not exactly a solution—to these instabilities
Summary
The Green New Deal (GND) (Markey, 2019; Ocasio-Cortez, 2019) is something like a celestial object exerting a force on discourse and politics around global climate change—inciting fear, inquiry, unease, or opportunity. Keywords Agro-ecology, agrarian question, Green New Deal, climate debt, environmentalism
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