Tagged: Seamus Milne

Seamus Milne on “a broken economic model”

The intervention, regulation, taxation, social ownership, redistribution and global co-operation needed to slash carbon emissions and build a sustainable economy for the future is clearly incompatible with a broken economic model based on untrammelled self-interest and the corporate free-for-all that created the crisis in the first place. Given the scale of the threat, the choice for the rest of us could not be more obvious.

From Seamus Milne at the Guardian – http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/20/climate-change-deniers-markets-fix