To make real climate progress, we need a green economic populism that brings immediate, material benefits to the working class—tackling both carbon and the cost-of-living crisis. We can start local rn. Thrilled to share my NYT op-ed w @triofrancos.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o... - ThreadSky

aldasky.bsky.social • 51 days ago

To make real climate progress, we need a green economic populism that brings immediate, material benefits to the working class—tackling both carbon and the cost-of-living crisis. We can start local rn.

Thrilled to share my NYT op-ed w @triofrancos.bsky.social!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/opinion/electric-vehicles-tax-credits.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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beechandelm.bsky.social•51 days ago

" we need a green economic populism that brings immediate, material benefits to the working class" What planet are you on making plaintive claim for the working class/climate? The neolib schema is now in terminus mode squeezing the last pips of working class income streams with a rentier economy. 1/

beechandelm.bsky.social•51 days ago

Why is 64% of the US unable to find $500 in an emergency? By definition as Biden did less than required what on earth do you think Trump et al are going to do? We have corporate state capture and you're advocating some deus ex machina (i.e unidentified process) bc it needs be? Who, how? Get real. /2

beechandelm.bsky.social•51 days ago

You do all this work to merely recognise the problem? As if Blind Freddy can't see it? Your job is not identification when 30% of the population with undergraduate degrees see the same problem, as do many of the working class. Your job is to provide the solution. /3

monewsdaily.bsky.social•51 days ago

Lots of superficial ideas
Not the answer

aldasky.bsky.social•51 days ago

No one's shaped my thinking on climate politics and green capitalism more than the brilliant @triofrancos.bsky.social.

It's such a privilege to write and think w her! I'm eager to hear what folks think of our argument.

aldasky.bsky.social•51 days ago

This emerges from a collective project with @cplusc.bsky.social, where we've been articulating the links between climate crisis, economic struggles, and the imperative to end genocide and forever wars.

https://climateandcommunity.org/research/seize-the-future/

kevinleecaster.bsky.social•51 days ago

What part of your understanding of Green Capitalism suggests that supporting the New York Times is wise?

monewsdaily.bsky.social•51 days ago

Yup

slorantes.bsky.social•45 days ago

"[An] economy... focused on affordable green housing, higher wages, cheap clean energy, lower commuting costs and expanded mass transit. States, cities and towns can get the ball rolling."

These could improve quality of life, air quality, and the environment, while having a positive climate impact.

jakegp.bsky.social•51 days ago

You’re right that the IRA should have been bolder , that it should have been just the first of several big climate laws, that we need a green new deal. But the op-ed overlooks the fact that Biden had to donate his kidney to Manchin to get the bill through the senate

aldasky.bsky.social•51 days ago

Appreciate this. I think we're more focused on how to orient climate politics going forward rather than litigating 2021 tactics. There will always be constraints, so what do we prioritize as we rebuild from the ground up?

jakegp.bsky.social•51 days ago

I respect that and think it’s a good op-ed. I just feel that the fraught circumstances of the IRA’s birth should be mentioned before the bill gets tarnished by the dreaded Prius brush. The IRA was (is) transformative and any follow up will face similar, if not more entrenched, obstacles

triofrancos.bsky.social•51 days ago

The NYT wanted a forward looking piece and we did as much as we could on background context. I can def recommend great retrospectives on the IRA that informed our thinking. Also, two years from its “birth” it’s legit to talk about consequences of policies without be required to rehash entire history

itsmccarthy.bsky.social•51 days ago

So glad to see this!

ilikehikes.bsky.social•51 days ago

Agree. I think one lesson of IRA is that there wasn’t a marquee program that touched *many* people *immediately* that could be pointed to as a win. Future legislation needs that - maybe refundable child tax credit + 2 free school meals for all - to go with all other investments you outline.

econundertow.bsky.social•47 days ago

The so-called 'green economy' is happening right now under everyone's nose.

It's not policy driven but by resource constraints including credit.

But that's okay, we have cupholders!

sheezayaya.bsky.social•50 days ago

Fvk the NYT

yisraelmeirsobel.bsky.social•51 days ago

Here are my suggestions for green populist policies, tax private jets, luxury cars and jet fuel. Carbon tariffs, with the goal of provoking retaliatory carbon tariffs. Subsidizing local Bike manufacturing.

vernv.bsky.social•51 days ago

I suspect by the end of the next 4 years you will have a late 60's gas guzzler economy with its inherent pollution.

d-regan.bsky.social•50 days ago

Glad for your practical policy ideas re/ the potential for state & local governments to fight inflation (driven increasingly by climate disruption) to help working class folks AND our climate at the same time.
Here's same article at SaltLake Tribune without a paywall:
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2025/01/08/opinion-biden-left-us-with-prius/

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