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This by @TroyVettese in @BostonReview is a stellar analysis of the IPCC report on 1.5°C global warming, bringing out its subtle radicalism through the lenses of classical political economy, land use, planning, and the German war economy in 1914-1918: bit.ly/2UZxbsW
More historical analogies for how to deal with climate stress and energy scarcity are to be found in Jörg Friedrichs' book "The Future Is Not What It Used to Be"; interwar Japan, and North Korea and Cuba in the 1990s: bit.ly/2ULu1nF
Interesting that whereas the Green New Deal debate in the U.S. draws its imagination from the abundant North American 'open' war economy of the 1940s, for many societies the more relevant model may be 'closed' war economies, often under siege as a result of economic war.
