{"id":10065,"date":"2019-02-09T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T16:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=10065"},"modified":"2021-06-10T08:52:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:52:48","slug":"green-new-dealing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2019\/02\/09\/green-new-dealing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Green new dealing it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who teaches media and environment, it&#8217;s heartening to see people like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/2\/8\/18216884\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-video-campaign-finance\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> and one of her advisors, Cornell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/spotlights\/Robert-Hockett-Co-Authors-The-Way-Forward.cfm\">legal star<\/a> Robert Hockett, break through the media din. Even Tucker Carlson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/fox-news-tucker-carlson-aoc-adviser_us_5c5ea02be4b0eec79b23b3f3\">had to admit<\/a> that &#8220;it&#8217;s nice to have a smart person&#8221; on his show to explain things. (Students, take note.)<\/p>\n<p>First, Ocasio-Cortez:<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"js_1hc\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\">\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MHD-M1AG7Hs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, on the Green New Deal (her big announcement of the week), Hockett:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0qyx6eDkrmw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For an indicator of how rare it is to break into the right-wing noise machine, there are countless examples <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Fh3sSJ52_A4\">like this one<\/a> (&#8220;Green Deal Disaster&#8221;) or the 4-to-1 gang-up here (where Juan Williams impressively holds his own):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmtLekfA0fs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s interesting how the hard facts manage to sneak in even despite their best efforts &#8212; see at 3&#8217;36&#8221; here (&#8220;So it&#8217;s only gonna slow down climate change&#8230; So it&#8217;s Miami that gets flooded instead of some other cities.&#8221;):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ro0Rr2pr7qQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Take-home lessons from all of this?<\/p>\n<p>1. <em><strong>Move quickly and dramatically, even if it means taking\u00a0risks<\/strong>. <\/em>Like putting stuff out with not fully vetted language. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/aoc-green-new-deal-promises-economic-security-for-those-unable-or-unwilling-to-work\/\">Apparently<\/a> Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.npr.org\/documents\/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ\">first draft<\/a> had that &#8220;unwilling to work&#8221; language that Hockett denies. I don&#8217;t see the original on her web site, and it&#8217;s not entirely clear to me where the <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/documents\/5729035\/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf\">version being shared<\/a> came from. But does it matter? Not really, since first draft statements go through multiple iterations, critiques, and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1jxUzp9SZ6-VB-4wSm8sselVMsqWZrSrYpYC9slHKLzo\/edit#heading=h.z7x8pz4dydey\">revisions<\/a> &#8212; the public policy version of &#8220;peer review&#8221; &#8212; before they become legislation, so debating something that isn&#8217;t current just drags people into the political point-scoring game, which builds up one&#8217;s political base but fails to convince the &#8220;undecided&#8221; center. The latter space is where things ultimately have to be.\u00a0 <a href=\"#fn1\">See note 1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. <em><strong>Speak to the other side (and all sides), and don&#8217;t be cowed<\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0 Hockett, Williams (above), and Ocasio-Cortez all show the importance of keeping to your wits even when you&#8217;re being attacked from all sides (viz. Williams).<\/p>\n<p>3. <em><strong>Dramatize, ironize, turn it into theatre<\/strong>.<\/em> See Ocasio-Cortez above.<\/p>\n<p>4. <em><strong>None of this can be done without the movement behind it<\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0In this case it&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;id=kDlLniTc97oC&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pg=PR7&amp;dq=%22green+new+deal%22&amp;ots=PeF9ztdrOm&amp;sig=n14P_pbIslnj3eQTq6kHeLG7l6Y#v=onepage&amp;q=%22green%20new%20deal%22&amp;f=false\">scholars<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Green-Collar-Economy-Solution-Problems\/dp\/B003GAN3FK\">journalists<\/a>, and public policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataforprogress.org\/green-new-deal\/\">think tanks<\/a> that have been <a href=\"https:\/\/neweconomics.org\/\">working<\/a> on the &#8220;green new deal&#8221; idea <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_New_Deal\">for the last decade<\/a>\u00a0or more, the activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theclimatemobilization.org\/\">groups<\/a> that have been <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunrise_Movement\">building support<\/a> for it around the world, and the climate, ecological, and economic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalchange.gov\/browse\/reports\/climate-science-special-report-fourth-national-climate-assessment-nca4-volume-i\">realities<\/a> that ground-truth it more and more <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/news\/2841\/2018-fourth-warmest-year-in-continued-warming-trend-according-to-nasa-noaa\/\">with every passing year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p id=\"fn1\">1. I&#8217;m not defending Hockett&#8217;s denial of the original line. But if it was in AOC&#8217;s original text, Hockett&#8217;s claim that &#8220;we&#8221; aren&#8217;t saying that could be taken to mean that since he joined the advisory team that line hasn&#8217;t been there.<a title=\"Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.\" href=\"#fn1\">&#x21a9;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who teaches media and environment, it&#8217;s heartening to see people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and one of her advisors, Cornell legal star Robert Hockett, break through the media din. Even Tucker Carlson had to admit that &#8220;it&#8217;s nice to have a smart person&#8221; on his show to explain things. (Students, take note.) First, Ocasio-Cortez:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[520594,691215],"tags":[520666,520667,520668,520675,4412,292,520673,255,520669,520672,8,520674,520670,347,520671],"class_list":["post-10065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-politics","category-politics_postpolitics","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-aoc","tag-campaign-finance-reform","tag-climate-change-communication","tag-ecomedia","tag-environmental-communication","tag-fox-business-news","tag-fox-news","tag-green-new-deal","tag-juan-williams","tag-media","tag-right-wing-media","tag-robert-hockett","tag-television","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-2Cl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1195,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/02\/11\/swiftclimateboating-the-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":10065,"position":0},"title":"Swift\/climate\/boating the media","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"February 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Having published the results of its 12-part investigation into the leaked\/hacked climate scientist e-mails at the University of East Anglia, the Guardian is now inviting \"web users to annotate the manuscript to help us in our aim of creating the definitive account of the controversy.\" It's a kind of public\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Climate change&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/climate-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1035,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/02\/26\/green-cultural-studies\/","url_meta":{"origin":10065,"position":1},"title":"Green cultural studies","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"February 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Cultural studies\" refers to the study of cultural objects, meanings, and processes, and their production and use in contemporary society. 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