There is an increasingly divisive debate about whether “green growth” or overcoming the growth paradigm altogether is the better way to achieve rapid emissions reductions and a more livable world.
Economics
Reuters: China’s factories reopen, only to fire workers as virus shreds global trade
A brilliant example of the spiral we are facing. Short and succinct. Everyone was praising globalisation, but apparently they do no understand it. Read here
Austerity
The Independent: Reject austerity to defeat populism, Portugal’s socialist prime minister António Costa tells EU
Portugal has abandoned austerity – maybe not in a radical manner – but even then the nation’s citizens and economy are faring much better than it ever did under austerity. Read here
EU politics
Ruairí Casey – Germany’s Anti-Semitism Resolution: Questions of Funding
The Bundestag has called for critics of Israel to be frozen out from funding for arts, academia and civil society – all to fight antisemitism I looked at how control over state funding has become […]
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