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Much has been written recently about the concept and structure of green new deals (see review in Galvin and Healy 2020). There were numerous proposals in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that advocated government stimulus funding for climate change mitigation, and a survey of these found they were often modelled on US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s (Luke 2009). These advocate decarbonizing the economy and protecting the environment while also reducing income inequality. The US Green New Deal advocated by US Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey (H. Res. 109 2019) was constructed along these lines. Its content was fleshed out in Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign policies with minor modifications (Sanders 2019) and later incorporated more or less intact in President Joe Biden’s pre-election policy briefs (Biden …