+ For most of the past generation, the aims of environmental sustainability and social justice were seen as equally worthy, yet painfully and unavoidably in conflict. Tree huggers and spotted owls were pitted against loggers and hard hats. Fighting global warming was held to inevitably worsen global poverty and vice versa.
+ Over the past couple of years, there has been a dramatic reversal of thinking: the idea has emerged that protecting the environment - in particular, defeating global warming - can also be an effective engine of economic growth, job creation and even poverty reduction.
+ The transformation of our fossil fuel driven economy into a clean energy economy will be the work of a generation, engaging a huge range of people and activities.
+ As a tool for fighting the recession, the green recovery project has as its first purpose injecting more money into the economy as quickly as possible. In this way, a $100 billion green investment program would create on the order of 1.7 million new jobs.
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Showing posts with label Jubilee. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
IMPORTANT ARTICLE ON DOING THE RECOVERY RIGHT
Thanks to The Witherspoon Society, I found this important article: "Doing the Recovery Right" by Robert Pollin. It was published by The Nation. Excerpts:
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
MESSAGE FOR THE TREK OCTOBER 7, 2008
The spiritual journey simply can not be separated from a vigorous quest for peace and justice.
There is plenty of wealth on the planet. There is enough for every one to have enough food, get decent health care, live in adequate housing. It simply needs to be distributed better, In other words, we need to pay far more attention to basic justice and fairness than has been the case in recent times. And, of course, we need to do this in a way which sustains our environment rather than destroys our environment.I do not have a detailed plan for such an effort. I know that there are many economists and theologians and philosophers and politicians who do have worthy plans that we need to consider. Sallie McFague quickly comes to mind. So does John Preston and James Redfield. The Jubilee Campaign to forgive debt is an important part of any plan since so much of the debt of third world nations is grossly unfair. I will seek to become more aware of more plans for global justice and fairness and sustainable abundance and offer information here from time to time. Any help on this from readers is welcome.
There is plenty of wealth on the planet. There is enough for every one to have enough food, get decent health care, live in adequate housing. It simply needs to be distributed better, In other words, we need to pay far more attention to basic justice and fairness than has been the case in recent times. And, of course, we need to do this in a way which sustains our environment rather than destroys our environment.I do not have a detailed plan for such an effort. I know that there are many economists and theologians and philosophers and politicians who do have worthy plans that we need to consider. Sallie McFague quickly comes to mind. So does John Preston and James Redfield. The Jubilee Campaign to forgive debt is an important part of any plan since so much of the debt of third world nations is grossly unfair. I will seek to become more aware of more plans for global justice and fairness and sustainable abundance and offer information here from time to time. Any help on this from readers is welcome.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
JUBILEE ACT PASSED BY HOUSE
+ Good News! The Jubilee USA Network reports that the Jubilee Act (HR 2634) has passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 285 to 132! Now, on to the Senate!
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