Green New Deal in Poland
The idea of the Green New Deal refers back to the New Deal that was realized in the United
States in the 1930s by President Roosevelt as a state response to the deepest recession in
the history, with growing unemployment, a decline in the economic production and a drastic
increase of public debt. Public investments (e.g. public works) allowed creating of new
jobs, introduction of social benefits and common pension scheme, establishment of minimum
pay and maximum working hours. This all contributed to a better cohesion of social
system and to the emergence of the American economy out of the recession. The New
Deal, however, concentrated mainly on social and economic perspectives; ecological policy
was not an element of activism of any country in the world at that time. The Green New
Deal, on the other hand, indicates simultaneously a new perspective, apart from social and
economic ones, and challenges of global crisis of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.
