Credit Crunch & Climate Crisis - The Way Forward
Monday 10 November 08
Calvary Church Hall
72 Viaduct Rd, Preston Circus, Brighton, BN1 4ND (Map)
7.30 - 9.30pm £free/donation
Download poster to print and display here
Speakers
- Caroline Lucas MEP Parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion Ward and Leader of the Green Party,
- Ann Pettifor Campaign Director, Operation Noah and former head of Jubliee 2000 debt relief campaign
- Larry Elliott Economics Editor, The Guardian,
- Colin Hines Co-Director, Finance For the Future
- Chaired by Councillor Bill Randall
This month we are teaming up with Brighton & Hove Green Party and The Green New Deal Group (click here to see summary or download report from NEF website), which is a collaboration between leading thinkers, whose authors include all of this event's speakers.
The local and global economy is facing a combination of a credit-fuelled financial crisis, accelerating climate change and soaring energy prices underpinned by encroaching peak oil. The group, drawing inspiration from the tone of President Roosevelt’s comprehensive response to the Great Depression, propose a modernised version, a ‘Green New Deal’, joined up policies designed to power a renewables revolution, create thousands of green-collar jobs and rein in the distorting power of the finance sector while making more low-cost capital available for pressing priorities.
Bill Randall and Caroline Lucas are calling for Brighton to become a hub for ‘eco-businesses’ to create thousands of new jobs in the city. Dr Lucas
says "We need a Green New Deal between government, business and ordinary families based on the ideas of ending our dependence on oil, cutting climate change emissions, creating thousands of new 'green' jobs and re-regulating the banking and fuel multi-nationals. Government should spend serious money helping those who need it most - the 37 per cent of central Brighton children living in poverty, for example, or the thousands of the frail and elderly facing a choice between heating their homes and eating nutritious food this winter - not the fat-cat bankers who got us in to the mess in the first place."
What do you think? See you there?
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