Thread by @stocksyatlarge

Listening to the excellent @KevinClimate argue we could make a massive step towards addressing climate breakdown by just doing this: ‘if the top 10% carbon emitters reduced their carbon footprint to EU average that would cut global CO2 by 1/3’ #ExtinctionRebellion
#PECgrowth

Alternative view: Professor Robert Pollin argues if economic response to climate change is anti-growth, we risk ‘only achieving a 10% reduction in CO2 (not enough anyway) and triggering a reduction in GDP 4x greater than Great Depression’. Calls for Green New Deal. #PECGrowth

@MollyMEP argues for radical yet transitional economics ‘it’s like trying to change an aeroplane into a helicopter midflight, so important to make transitional changes eg with Citizens Income people would feel job security without need 4 economic growth to create jobs #PECGrowth

@MollyMEP (who catches the train to Brussels) calls for all companies that have people on expense accounts to also keep associated carbon budgets - and disclose them. ‘So if their people fly a lot, everyone can see that’ #PECGrowth

@KevinClimate 1/3
‘This is a rationing issue. We have to ration out the carbon we have left and people have not grasped how radical this will need to be and that’s because the global elite have chosen to fail to tackle this for the last 28 years’ #ExtinctionRebellion

2/3 @KevinClimate ‘small elite who run media dont want us to make transition because they wont be better off. But majority of people will be. ie Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre will have to go through his own personal recession but his readers wont’ #ExtinctionRebellion #PECGrowth

3/3 @KevinClimate ‘academics stayed quiet because we wanted to get grants from research councils and they had to show work funded would feed into economic growth. We’ve been pliant & party 2 maintaining status quo. We need integrity & honesty now. #ExtinctionRebellion #PECGrowth