Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal | Letters
by Letters from Environment | The Guardian on (#46771)
Richard Murphy and Colin Hines suggest a number of ways that revenue could be raised to fund energy efficiency in all buildings, renewables and local transport systems
The counter to Larry Elliott's gloomy economic projections for 2019 (For those inclined to pessimism, the new year offers plenty to be worried about, 31 December) is to be found in his earlier article making the case for countries to put their economies on an "environmental war footing" (We're back to 1930s politics: anger and, yes, appeasement, 20 December).
To deliver this will, however, require that people be convinced that they will benefit and that there is the money to pay for such a transformation.
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