Finance and energy are the engines of a modern society. Currently run for the benefit of a privileged few, however, they are driving us down the road to ruin. That road has a rapidly approaching fork. On the one side is the looming climate catastrophe; on the other is the prospect of another financial crisis as our fossil fuel energy infrastructure is rendered worthless.
Our task is to avoid both outcomes — and forge a new path to ecological and economic sustainability. Under public control, we could use money and electricity to power a better, healthier life for all, to protect the natural world, and to build a more equitable and democratic economic system.
Radically transforming two of the most powerful sectors of the capitalist economy, finance and energy, may seem insurmountable. But a Green New Deal won’t get far otherwise.
But the real question, of course, is how can we afford not to address the cataclysmic impacts of runaway global warming? Democratize Finance, Euthanize theRead More
