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The article focuses on need for a rapid Green New Deal-inspired transformation and the value of studying the U.S. experience during World War II to help achieve it. It examine the evolution, challenges and central role of state planning in the wartime conversion of the U.S. economy to alert us to the kind of state agencies and capacities. It also mentions efforts of labor activists to democratize the process of transformation during the war period.

The article environmental protection related proposals, and deals and nuclear power's consequences on humanity and nature. Topics include that nuclear reactors have radioactive isotopes that can easily result in the exposure to harmful levels of radioactivity of both workers and the population; and the proposed the Green New Deal (GND) by the U.S. to address climate change and economic inequality.

The article focuses on the introduction of the New Green Deal resolution into the U.S. Congress by Senator Ed Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Topics include the significance of the resolution in uniting the issues that relate to climate change with the eroding racism, employees' rights and increased inequality, the important role of self-organization and autonomy for the world's radical transformation and the need for the U.S. to lead the greenhouse gas emissions reduction.