Beyond the Green New Deal

“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.

Stan Cox is a research fellow in Ecosphere Studies at The Land Institute. He received his Ph.D. in plant breeding and cytogenetics from Iowa State University, served as a wheat geneticist in the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service for thirteen years, and joined The Land Institute as a perennial sorghum breeder in 2000. His books include The Green New Deal and Beyond; Losing Our Cool, about air conditioning; Any Way You Slice It, about rationing; and How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe’s Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia (co-authored with Paul Cox).