Article 48WGZ The Green New Deal offers radical environmental and economic change | Ann Pettifor

The Green New Deal offers radical environmental and economic change | Ann Pettifor

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Ann Pettifor
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The proposal is incredibly ambitious, both on climate change and with its reimagining of society

The revival of the Green New Deal framework (first developed in a report published in 2008) and popularized by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Justice Democrats in the US, is a huge advance for green campaigners and, hopefully, for our threatened species. That is because it has a single radical ask: an ecological and economic transformation of the current system to end our addiction to fossil fuels and endless consumption of the earth's finite assets.

Related: What is the Green New Deal and how would it benefit society?

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