IN The Burning Case for a Green New Deal, Naomi Klein wears Donald Trump’s “prophet of doom” badge with honour and in her new book On Fire is unafraid to map out a planet on the verge of an environmental breakdown with a plan to do something about it.

A small group of economists have been working on that deal since the mid-2010s. The idea was revived first by the Democrat’s Alexandria Ocasio Cortez championing of it on her election to Congress in 2018 and then once more  as the highlight of Labour’s 2019 election manifesto.  

A read of The Case for the Green New Deal by Ann Pettifor — one of that original small group — serves to inform and inspire a politics of alternatives to the otherwise forthcoming destruction of our planet.