Stop holding your noses, and listen to them, otherwise they’ll ally themselves with those that do listen: the fascists. They are hurting economically, they need economic solutions.
What I want for governments is to enormously subsidise converting from petrol and diesel to bikes and electric cars! And to speed up the process of expanding energy and electricity nets.
For sure! But it has to be done in a way that is lazer focused on making sure no worker is left behind. The Green New Deal (not the Von Der Leyen simulacrum, the Bernie Sanders original) is trying to articulate that idea. The Polanski Greens in the UK and the Lewis NDP in Canada are all about offering this democratic ecosocialist vision forward. Without this leg of the equation, fake green capitalism is just a gift to the far right.
Stop holding your noses, and listen to them, otherwise they’ll ally themselves with those that do listen: the fascists. They are hurting economically, they need economic solutions.
What I want for governments is to enormously subsidise converting from petrol and diesel to bikes and electric cars! And to speed up the process of expanding energy and electricity nets.
For sure! But it has to be done in a way that is lazer focused on making sure no worker is left behind. The Green New Deal (not the Von Der Leyen simulacrum, the Bernie Sanders original) is trying to articulate that idea. The Polanski Greens in the UK and the Lewis NDP in Canada are all about offering this democratic ecosocialist vision forward. Without this leg of the equation, fake green capitalism is just a gift to the far right.
The worst thing an economy can do is subsidize energy prices for political reasons.
The one lesson we should have learned since 2008 is that politics cannot be ignored. This kind of supposed technocratic neoliberalism has failed.
Sorry but if populism is a requirement then it’s the people who have failed, not the government.
How Brechtian of you.