Book #4: On Fire
Why we need a Green New Deal.
Hi friends! I’m Jess and this is Book Club for the Planet, an online community for us to read about the climate crisis in community.
Who’s afraid of Naomi Klein? A lot of people, I suspect—one of the loudest, most persistent voices raising the alarm bells about the climate crisis for decades. Our next meet-up is to discuss her book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. We’ll meet on Sunday, April 18 at 1 pm EST.
Want more background on a Green New Deal? Read the resolution introduced in 2019 by AOC and Sen. Ed Markey. It’s not long and is worth reading all the way through.
Want more Naomi? Tune in today, Tuesday, April 6, at 6 pm EST for a digital town hall with Naomi Klein and Rep. Ilhan Omar discussing the surveillance state. Hosted by The Intercept! Link to register here.
As for our book club meet-ups, everyone is welcome to join, whether you’ve finished the book or not, and to engage in whatever way feels right to you. Maybe you’re coming to connect with others and work through these questions with a sympathetic sounding board, or maybe you’re coming to learn in a listen-only mode. You are welcome here! Our meetings last for about 90 minutes, but it’s totally ok to come for the first 45 minutes or an hour if that works for you. I started this book club because I think one of the best actions you can take to confront the climate crisis is to talk about it, so that’s what we’re here to do!
For those who are new to our meetings, here’s how it works:
A few days before our meeting, I send out a separate Mail Chimp newsletter with a Zoom registration link. Please register so our fellow organizers and I can plan appropriately for the size of our expected group. If you have unsubscribed to that newsletter (life happens and my email inbox perpetually has over 5,000 unread emails in it, so I get it!), please also make sure to unsubscribe to this Substack as well so I don’t accidentally re-subscribe you to the Mail Chimp newsletter when I’m updating the lists every other month.
That’s it, for now! Happy reading and “see” you all soon.