Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: Who's afraid of the Green New Deal?
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Green New Deal is a divisive idea for the economies of the future, derided by the right as ill thought out, its left wing proponents see it as a way of saving the environment while keeping up economic growth. Manveen Rana has been speaking to the co-authors of a new book on the subject, Professors Robert Pollin and Noam Chomsky.
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Guests:
Robert Pollin, Professor of economics and co-director of the political economy research Institute at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:58.0 | Are you going to... |
| 0:59.0 | Pardon me? |
| 1:00.0 | Do you support? |
| 1:01.0 | No, I don't support the Green New Deal. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, you don't. Oh, well, that's a big statement. |
| 1:04.0 | I support the bottom. |
| 1:06.0 | I support the radical left. |
| 1:07.0 | I support the Biden plan that I put forward. |
| 1:11.0 | Okay. |
| 1:12.0 | The Biden plan. |
| 1:15.0 | But what is the Green New Deal? |
| 1:17.0 | And how has it become so politically toxic? |
| 1:21.0 | We hear from Nome Chomsky the renowned public intellectual and the economist Robert |
| 1:26.7 | Poland. They've just co-written a book on the Green New Deal and they think it's the |
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