Links tagged “economics”
- Claim: Climate action can’t be separated from social justice – ‘The climate crisis is a driver of injustice, widening the gap between the haves & the have-nots’
- LIZ WARREN PITCHES CLIMATE CHANGE ‘JOBS’ PLAN. IT COSTS $2 MILLION PER JOB
- Socialists Ruin the Environment: ‘Track record is woefully poor’
- AOC’s Green New Deal could have Dems facing blue-collar backlash at polls
- Socialism Is Bad for the Environment
- Study: ‘Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis’
People across Europe will need to work drastically fewer hours to avoid disastrous climate heating unless there is a radical decarbonising of the economy, according to a study...The research, from thinktank Autonomy, shows workers in the UK would need to move to nine-hour weeks to keep the country on track to avoid more than 2C of heating at current carbon intensity levels. Similar reductions were found to be necessary in Sweden and Germany.The findings are based on OECD and UN data on greenhouse gas emissions per industry in the three countries. It found that at current carbon levels, all three would require a drastic reduction in working hours as well as urgent measures to decarbonise the economy to prevent climate breakdown.
- ‘Young people blame climate change for their small 401(k) balances’ – ‘Think civilization may not exist when they’re of retirement age’
Lori Rodriguez, a 27-year-old communications professional in New York City, is not saving for retirement, and it isn’t necessarily because she can’t afford to — it’s because she doesn’t expect it to matter. Like many people her age, Rodriguez believes climate change will have catastrophic effects on our planet. Some 88% of millennials — a higher percentage than any other age group — accept that climate change is happening, and 69% say it will impact them in their lifetimes. Engulfed in a constant barrage of depressing news stories, many young people are skeptical about saving for an uncertain future. “I want to hope for the best and plan for a future that is stable and secure, but, when I look at current events and at the world we are predicting, I do not see how things could not be chaotic in 50 years,” Rodriguez says. “The weather systems are already off, and I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to be a little apocalyptic.”
- ‘GIVE US SOME OF THAT SOCIALISM’: DEMOCRATS HEADLINE GREEN NEW DEAL RALLY
- Biodiversity threat won’t be tackled by alarmist biologist hype and dismantling capitalism
- Analysis: UN claims a million species face extinction? Time to burn fossil fuels to save them! – ‘Best way to save wilderness is to increase the GDP of those in poverty’
Jo Nova: "Wealthy countries are solving all of these problems faster than poor countries are. The best way to save wilderness is to increase the GDP of those in poverty. Free trade, fair agricultural markets. Less red tape. Less corruption.
We’ve tied up lots of land, so the last thing we want is to use wilderness for useless solar and wind farms, or palm oil plantations. Why keep coal and uranium underground when we can save forest instead?
Again, in nations where there are healthy economies, fish stocks are being protected and are recovering. Whales too. Even great white sharks."
