Environmental Studies

“Beyond the Green New Deal” by Stan Cox, research fellow in Ecosphere Studies at The Land Institute.

In The Green New Deal and Beyond, Stan Cox argues that we must support the Green New Deal but must also, by law, put an impermeable ceiling on the national fossil-fuel supply, one that rapidly lowers year-by-year, reaching zero in the near future. That will require planned allocation of resources among economic sectors and fair-shares rationing of energy for households. Clearly, this will also require deep transformations of our economy and society.

The climate crisis confronts each of us, including and especially young people, with urgent questions and bewildering choices about how to live, what to learn, where to go, what to do, and who to be at this momentous historical crossroads. Building on Naomi Klein’s Margolin Lecture from the previous week, this event will bring together students and faculty to discuss how and why college (i.e. what we’re all doing right now) might matter, or might come to matter, as we confront increasingly turbulent planetary futures.