Class Divides in the Politics of Building

The turn to a “politics of building” is a welcome change in environmental thinking, but the green Left is still at odds in important ways with the labor movement, which better understands what is needed for deep decarbonization and, most importantly,

There appears to be a shift in environmental thinking. A movement most known for blocking destructive fossil fuel infrastructure has realized it also needs a politics focused on building new energy infrastructure: new electricity generation and transmission; new public transit; new energy efficient housing. It’s hard to understate the scale of infrastru…