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Book SynopsisScience, not politics, can take us beyond the hype and headlines to forge a realistic green new deal. Since it was first proposed in the US House of Representatives, the Green New Deal has been hotly debated, often using partisan characterizations that critique it as extreme or socialist. The intent was not simply to fight climate change or address a specific environmental concern, but rather to tackle how climate change and other environmental challenges affect the economy, the vulnerable, and social justiceand vice versa. In Science for a Green New Deal, Eric Davidson dissects this legislative resolution. He also shows how green new deal thinking offers a framework for a much-needed convergence of the natural sciences, social science, economics, and community engagement to develop holistic policy solutions to the most pressing issues of our day. Davidson weaves the case for linkages among multiple global crises, including a pandemic that has reversed progress on fighting poverty an
Trade ReviewThis book is an easy yet informed read supported by strong citations. The challenge, as I see it, is to get people to read Davidson's book and act.
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BioscienceTable of ContentsForeword, by Donald F. Boesch
Preface
Chapter 1. Muddling or Dealing?
Chapter 2. No Tree, No Bee, No Honey, No Money
Chapter 3. Are There Too Few or Too Many People?
Chapter 4. Manure Happens: The Consequences of Feeding Over Seven Billion Human Omnivores
Chapter 5. Climate Change Viewed by a Skeptic at Heart
Chapter 6. The Luddites Had It Half-Right, but the Other Half Could Be Great News
Chapter 7. There's a Great Future in the Circular Economy
Chapter 8. Whither the Academy? A Horse of a Different Color?
Chapter 9. "And So, I'm Going to Work Tomorrow"
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
