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J. W. Mason – Yes, we can afford a Green New Deal
Slowly but surely the Green New Deal is becoming better known. Here J. W. Mason explains in a few minutes why it affordable Watch here
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Clean Arctic Alliance: Ridding the Arctic of the World’s Dirtiest Fuel
The global shipping industry is largely unseen by us, but its pollution is a threat to our health and our climate, especially for the communities and wildlife of the Arctic. Read here
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Simon Wren-Lewis: How to pay for the Green New Deal
In our continuing coverage of the Green New Deal we are presenting an article by Simon Wren-Lewis, an economics professor and advisor of Jeremy Corbyn. There is one especially good passage: “No one in a […]
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Richard Murphy – Does the Green New Deal need modern monetary theory?
You know we are making progress towards a Green New Deal when alternative finance concepts can be discussed. The “if” is receding, being replaced by the “how”, hopefully soon to be replaced with the “when”. […]
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Martin Lukacs – We’ve been conned into fighting climate change as individuals when it’s corporate power destroying the planet
Meticulously sorting your rubbish for recycling may salve your conscience, but it will never stop climate change. Dump your corrupt government, being financed by transnational corporations, and elect a government that wil put effective policy […]
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Grace Blakeley: Whatever the Brexit outcome, the UK desperately needs a Green New Deal
Co-ordinated state action is necessary to address climate change without harming the economy or inflicting the costs on the poorest. Read here
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Ann Pettifor: The Green New Deal offers radical environmental and economic change
The proposal is incredibly ambitious, both on climate change and with its reimagining of society Read here
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Richard Murphy – The Green New Deal is what it means to be progressive
Richard Murphy is right: it is time to take leave of the 20th century. The decisive challenge facing society is climate change and all other social or economic developments are going have to accomodate this. […]
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Michael Roberts – The Green New Deal and changing America
While the UK Labour party has frittered away a valuable year distracted by inflationary claims of anti-semitism and with Brexit, the Democratic Socialists in the US are driving on an intense debate concerning a Green […]
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Steve Keen – A First Principles approach to Energy, Environment, and Money in Macroeconomics
This talk at the European Central Bank covers the failure of economic theorists of all persuasions, not only Neoclassical, to properly incorporate energy into their models of production, and the failure of Neoclassical economists to […]