Giving Compass' Take:

• In this video from Climate One, John Holdren, Harvard professor of environmental science and policy, discusses how he believes that addressing climate change is doable, but that the Green New Deal may make it too hard if it also includes the ambitious goals of jobs, education and healthcare for everybody.

• Although the Green New Deal aims for positive action, how can philanthropists and donors help those who may get negatively impacted? 

• Here's an article on what's next for The Green New Deal. 

With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are issues like economic equity, job security and public health outside the frame of climate action — or fundamental to its success?

Climate One travelled to Boston to record a special program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with two members of President Obama’s climate team: former White House Science Advisor John Holdren, now the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and former U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, who now directs Harvard’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment.

“I think the Green New Deal was a wake-up call,” says McCarthy. “I understand that it's a bunch of stretch goals and I think AOC and Senator Markey clearly understand that but it was a wake-up call to everybody who thinks incrementalism is going to be enough. We know it isn't.”

McCarthy came to the Harvard School of Public Health following her tenure at EPA in part because she wants to reframe the climate crisis as a public health issue.

Read the full article about if The Green New Deal works for all by the staff at Climate One.