Noam Chomsky: Policies promoting climate change are ‘a resolute march toward suicide’

October 26, 2022

In 2020, veteran left-wing author/professor Noam Chomsky teamed up with Robert Pollin, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for the book “Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet.” Chomsky views climate change, along with a global increase in far-right authoritarianism, as one of the worst dangers the world is facing in the 2020s.

Two years after that book was released, Chomsky is still sounding the alarm about climate change and calling for an aggressive and comprehensive Green New Deal. And Chomsky and Pollin had a lot to say about that subject during an interview with Truthout’s C.J. Polychroniou published as a Q&A article on October 23.

Polychroniou asked Chomsky and Pollin to address, “governments’ failure to slow or even reverse global warming,” adding, “Isn’t the evidence already overwhelming that the world stands on a climate precipice?”

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