Technological fixes, the purchase of green products, and the organization of emission trading schemes merely postpone the transformation of the existing socio-economic reality. If green technological innovations are driven primarily by the maximization of profit, it is unlikely that they will lead to the resolution of global climate change. In fact, the use of more benign technologies only means that humanity will continue along the same path that has already led to civilizational decline. Hence, a Green New Deal for climate change is necessary-an alternative vision of political, social, and economic thinking that will enable a synthesis of recovery from the current recession and substantial investments in renewable energy sources and a sustainable economy based on them. Confronting global climate change will disrupt all the rules of the free market game, rebuild the public sphere, redirect privatization, reduce consumption, reintroduce long-term planning, and impose regulations to control and tax corporations.