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The article offers a dystopian vision of the world impacted by climate change-related natural disasters in the future year of 2100, within the context of U.S. environmental policy from 1988 through 2019, including an imaginary war between the U.S. and Russia over Arctic region resources. An overview of the effect of global sea level rise on world population is provided.

The article discusses the significance of socialism in U.S. politics as of June 2019. Topics include the relation of liberalism to democracy, the notion of resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump, and the relation of democratic socialism to U.S. economic and environmental policies. The relation of U.S. racism to debates about capitalism and socialism is noted.

The article discusses the relation between U.S. foreign policy and environmental policy. Topics include the history of U.S. military interventions, the notion of a green internationalism for promoting climate change prevention, and the notion of progressive or socialist U.S. politics involving an end to military imperialism.

The article discusses a December 2015 international conference on climate change prevention in Paris, France. Topics include proposals known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to lower greenhouse gas emissions, the role of developing nations in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and the views of U.S. President Barack Obama on the negotiations.

The author addresses environmental issues that he sees as pressing concerns, focusing on the need for a normative ethical and scientific framework to guide environmental policy decisions, as well as a framework for comparing the environmental and human impacts of using different renewable energy sources. The author is critical of nuclear power and argues that solar, wind, and ocean wave power could offer a better alternative to mitigate climate change.

In the article, the author discusses the possible impact of the articles written by climate skeptic Bjorn Lombord in "The Wall Street Journal" about the alleged true effects of climate change and climate policy on the efforts to mitigate climate change. Also cited are Lombord' claims that global warming has reduced landfalling hurricanes and deaths from cold, as well as his controversial 2001 book "The Skeptical Environmentalist."

The article discusses the contradictory moral associations of the term "green" in a political and environmental context. Topics covered include the 1970s West German radicals who called themselves the Greens when they protested against industrial pollution and nuclear proliferation, the emergence of a deceptive marketing practice called greenwashing, and the Green New Deal's embrace of the term's ambiguity in the interest of developing a broad political coalition.

The article discusses the relationship between the U.S. environmental policy proposal known as the Green New Deal and the republicanism espoused by the 18th century U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton. An overview of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren's policy plan to address climate change, including in regard to the threat climate change poses, is provided. Hamilton's impact on the industrialization of the U.S. is discussed.

The article discusses the impact of U.S. Donald Trump's rejection of the Paris climate accord on world politics. Topics discussed include slowing the global momentum toward renewable energy and some cities and states that formed a climate alliance to announce they will meet targets set in the Paris accord on their own including California.

The article comments on a number of executive orders issued by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump in his first four months in office. Trump has signed 36 executive orders during the period, covering issues such as the Affordable Care Act, the environment and immigration. Trump is criticized for using an executive order to aid one of his corporate backers, the insurance company Metropolitan Life Insurance (MetLife).

The author discusses the issue of the Green New Deal. He mentions the belief of political philosopher Hannah Arendt on the relationship between political freedom and citizen participation, the need for such participation if a Green New Deal to fight climate change is to succeed, and the need for radical thinking to solve the crisis.