The Nuclear New Deal feat. Emmet Penney

The Green New Deal has become a catch phrase but very few
people, including the politicians who envoke its memory, have a
solid grasp of the context and pragmatics of the original New
Deal. Today I am joined by Emmet Penney, to discuss an article he
co-authored with Adrian Calderon titled “Why we need a Nuclear
new deal not a Green new deal.” Emmet walks us through the
context and consequences of the New Deal and provides a history
of US industrialization with an emphasis on the role of the
automobile. 


Over the last 40 years the USA has become an
"undeveloping" country due to offshoring and
globalization. Its creaky economy is
increasingly based on finance, service industries and dollar
hegemony. Given the urgent need for decarbonisation and a revival
of American industry in order to meet the environmental and
economic challenges ahead Emmet lays out why Nuclear energy must
replace the automobile as the driver of US re-industrialization
and the why and how of a Nuclear New Deal.