Thursday 29 August, 7.30pm, Glasgow, Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G41 1BA
Climate Emergency demands a rapid transformation in every aspect of our economy, from how we travel to how we heat our homes.
The Green New Deal has been advocated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders in the US and Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland as a way of making such a transformation happen.
Inspired by Franklin. D Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930's, which responded to the Great Depression with enormous public investment in new infrastructure building schools, dams and bridges, the Green New Deal seeks to end the era of austerity and expand state intervention across the economy.
But can Scotland have its own Green New Deal? How would it be financed? What would change and within what timeframe?
Richard Murphy, professor of Political Practice in International Political Economy at the University of London, is one of the leading advocates of the Green New Deal in the UK, having been a founding member of the Green New Deal Group in 2007 and authored numerous works on a Green New Deal. Murphy has also written on the economics of Scottish independence, arguing an independent Scotland could break from the neoliberal UK system if it took a radically different approach to tax and public investment
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Interesting about a Green New Deal for Scotland.
A lot of houses, especially in the North are single thickness stone, how are they insulated?
With cement render harling that will make them prone to damp as the walls are unable to breathe?
Will the roofs be insulated with this?
https://youtu.be/opn7A4BN4OE
The insulation with high flammability?
There is already a growing problem with bad cavity wall insulation.
http://www.civalli.com/
If someone wants to use natural materials such as lime plaster/mortar, sheep wool insulation and reputable local installers of heating, glazing etc…and not national companies, how would this be ensured?
Stop worrying. If the climate change cult is correct, Scotland will soon have a balmy Mediterranean climate. Yeah, and pigs fly.
Stupidity and denial in the face of reality know no limits
As ever my diary is busy, but I’ll try to get along next Friday.
I’m heading home on Friday….
Edinburgh is Wednesday and Glasgow Thursday
Mea culpa! I misread my calendar. Thursday it is.
🙂