Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal

Open Democracy: 27th October 2008

It is a small measure of the dramatic financial meltdown of 2007-08 that leading representatives of western liberal capitalism ransacked the past for reference-points to convey its scale…

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The Credit Crunch and the Green New Deal… in Compass

Wednesday 1st October, 2008

The massive deflation/de-leveraging of credit and debt that is now cascading through the banking system and rapidly deflating the value of housing and other assets in the Anglo-American economies will precipitate large-scale, global economic failure, for years to come.

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The Greens elect a leader & adopt the Green New Deal

Had the privilege, together with other co-authors of the Green New Deal -  Colin Hines, Jeremy Leggett and Tony Juniper – of addressing the annual conference  of the Green Party yesterday. It was a moving and historic event. The Greens have finally come to their senses and elected a leader – and a brilliant one at that – Caroline Lucas.

Caroline is a principled, savvy person – just the sort of leader the country needs to deal with the greatest security threat in our history – the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change.  Look here for her speech.….which happily for us, included an endorsement of the Green New Deal.

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