<story><title>Noam Chomsky: A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods</title><url>https://lithub.com/noam-chomsky-a-green-new-deal-can-create-jobs-and-livelihoods/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nomel</author><text>&amp;gt; The Green New Deal moves us in the right direction. You can raise questions about the specific form in which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey introduced it. But the general idea is quite right.&lt;p&gt;I really wish the &amp;quot;Green New Deal&amp;quot; wasn&amp;#x27;t mentioned in these pushes for the future. I don&amp;#x27;t think there was ever agreement on what the &amp;quot;general idea&amp;quot; of it was, and I don&amp;#x27;t think it deserves any credit for the few good ideas that it did contain. Sure, it&amp;#x27;s recognizable, but not necessarily in a good way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>&amp;quot;New Deal&amp;quot; is synonymous with a program of large and widespread government reform and investment to combat a specific problem.  So while &amp;quot;Green New Deal&amp;quot; is the name of a specific piece of legislation, support for a general green New Deal is support for reform and investment to help the environment and more specifically fight climate change.  I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone ever really expected the specific Green New Deal legislation to be passed, but it was meant to kick start that discussion and serve as a rallying point for future efforts.  This type of thing is pretty common when a specific piece of legislation is inserted to represent an entire issue.</text></comment>
<story><title>Noam Chomsky: A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods</title><url>https://lithub.com/noam-chomsky-a-green-new-deal-can-create-jobs-and-livelihoods/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nomel</author><text>&amp;gt; The Green New Deal moves us in the right direction. You can raise questions about the specific form in which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey introduced it. But the general idea is quite right.&lt;p&gt;I really wish the &amp;quot;Green New Deal&amp;quot; wasn&amp;#x27;t mentioned in these pushes for the future. I don&amp;#x27;t think there was ever agreement on what the &amp;quot;general idea&amp;quot; of it was, and I don&amp;#x27;t think it deserves any credit for the few good ideas that it did contain. Sure, it&amp;#x27;s recognizable, but not necessarily in a good way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbob2</author><text>&amp;gt; I really wish the &amp;quot;Green New Deal&amp;quot; wasn&amp;#x27;t mentioned in these pushes for the future.&lt;p&gt;Yes, and what do you personally prefer to see instead?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t think it deserves any credit for the few good ideas that it did contain&lt;p&gt;Why would something not deserve credit for any good ideas it contained?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Sure, it&amp;#x27;s recognizable, but not necessarily in a good way.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really not trying to nitpick, but it seems like you&amp;#x27;re overgeneralizing. To whom would it be recognizable but not necessarily in a good way?</text></comment>