Green Capitalism Won’t Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6093092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Sweeney (0000-0002-1979-2488, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 12-17 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Labor Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1095-7960 • E-ISSN: 1557-2978 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1095796015579693 |
| OpenAlex | W2106632981 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
For the last twenty years, unions in the United States and internationally have generally accepted the dominant discourse on climate policy, one that is grounded in assumptions that private markets will lead the “green transition,” reduce emissions, and stabilize the climate over the longer term. Indeed, unions began attending the climate negotiations convened by the United Nations in the early 1990s, a time when the “triumph of the market” went unchallenged and the climate debate was awash with neoliberal ideas. Unions, therefore, focused on articulating the need for “Just Transition” policies to deal with the negative impacts on employment brought about by climate policies and to highlight the need for income protection, re-employment opportunities, education and re-training, and job creation. 1 In keeping with the policy discourse of the time, unions talked and acted as if the transition to a low carbon economy was inevitable—the science was, after all, definitive and a broad consensus was emerging among business, governments, and civil society that emissions reductions were urgently needed and made good economic sense. Few unions openly expressed the view that capitalism might be incapable of addressing climate change and that radical restructuring of political economy is necessary in order to stay within planetary boundaries
Capitalism · Climate change · Economics · Negotiation · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |