It offers a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors like industry and mining to education and health.
If these and other measures are taken, the report says 89% of the world population would see their incomes double by 2100 and global heating would be kept below 2C above the preindustrial average.
Very correct, and I think that it’s important that we have cohesive, economy wide experts collaborating to work on solutions to all of these issues.
This report will never come to fruition, but it helps to combat the narrative that “all this green leftist shit is just not feasible”. Because it starts to untangle that by demonstrating feasibility and paving the way for discourse that could at least improve the trajectory we are on