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Protecting the Future

Protecting the Future The Jet Star roller coaster damaged by Hurricane Sandy in Seaside Heights, New Jersey in October 2012. (Photo available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seaside_Heights,_New_Jersey_after_ Sandy.jpg.) ©2013 by Hypnotica Studios Infinite (CC BY-2.0) 579086 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796015579086New Labor ForumBrecher research-article2015 Reversing Climate Change: What Will It Take? New Labor Forum 2015, Vol. 24(2) 18 –24 Protecting the Future: Copyright © 2015, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: A Strategic Proposal to Stop sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796015579086 Climate Change nlf.sagepub.com Jeremy Brecher Keywords capitalism, climate change, corporations, democracy, environmental movement, free market, globalization, green economy, neoliberalism On the weekend of September 21, 2014, people government leaders, and UN officials around in 162 countries joined 2,646 events to demand the policies defined as necessary by the IPCC. global reductions in the greenhouse gas (GHG) The UN “framework agreement” was followed emissions that are generating climate catastro- by the Kyoto Protocol and the Bali Road Map phe. An estimated forty thousand marched in for the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit. The London; thirty thousand in Melbourne; and world seemed to be proceeding on a rational, if twenty-five thousand in Paris. Some four hun- tardy, course to address climate change. dred thousand joined the People’s Climate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Protecting the Future

Brecher, Jeremy
New Labor Forum , Volume 24 (2): 7 – May 1, 2015
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The Jet Star roller coaster damaged by Hurricane Sandy in Seaside Heights, New Jersey in October 2012. (Photo available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seaside_Heights,_New_Jersey_after_ Sandy.jpg.) ©2013 by Hypnotica Studios Infinite (CC BY-2.0) 579086 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796015579086New Labor ForumBrecher research-article2015 Reversing Climate Change: What Will It Take? New Labor Forum 2015, Vol. 24(2) 18 –24 Protecting the Future: Copyright © 2015, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: A Strategic Proposal to Stop sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796015579086 Climate Change nlf.sagepub.com Jeremy Brecher Keywords capitalism, climate change, corporations, democracy, environmental movement, free market, globalization, green economy, neoliberalism On the weekend of September 21, 2014, people government leaders, and UN officials around in 162 countries joined 2,646 events to demand the policies defined as necessary by the IPCC. global reductions in the greenhouse gas (GHG) The UN “framework agreement” was followed emissions that are generating climate catastro- by the Kyoto Protocol and the Bali Road Map phe. An estimated forty thousand marched in for the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit. The London; thirty thousand in Melbourne; and world seemed to be proceeding on a rational, if twenty-five thousand in Paris. Some four hun- tardy, course to address climate change. dred thousand joined the People’s Climate

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