My next video that introduces themes I will address in my YouTube channel is out this morning. This time I talk about the Green New Deal:
The timing is good: this is what Rishi Sunak should be offering today, but be under no illusion: the complete transformation in thinking that it demands is a long way from Rishi Sunak's mind. Green remains a 'tack-on' extra for this government when it has to be at the very core of its thinking.
That's why 12 years after I, and others, created the Green New Deal this remains an issue to discuss, and a campaign to be pursued.
On Friday we make a pile more videos. Please let me know if there are any topical issues that you want addressed. One or two will address such themes.
The rest of the videos are available on the channel page, here.
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Watching this one prompted me to reiterate something I suggested in a comment a couple of days ago about embedding links in the videos to other material by using “cards”. An example of a link that could be embedded in this video is this one from The Guardian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uampTRW4KbQ from November 2019 on why the GND matters. Providing links like this will help viewers explore the subject further and you don’t have to do all the work, other than evaluating what related material to provide links to.
So far so good with what you have produced on your channel….great potential here
The difficulty with that type of production is the amount of time it takes -and so cost
My aim is low budget, high content
The point about embedding links to this kind of material is that you don’t have to be the one spending time and effort producing it. All you need to focus on is doing the straight forward introductory piece and then provide a map for viewers to go and explore the subject through vetted quality material…
the embedded links are the route markers on the map. The Guardian video leaves the “how do we pay for the GND” question up in the air so that leads to the next way point and a short video on your channel can deal with that, provide further embedded links and so your viewers are taken on a guided journey with opportunities to stop and smell the flowers…. so to speak. Viewer’s will probably follow a random walk in their own way but if the waymarkers are there they will complete the journey safely.
I’ll call you Jim – but maybe not today as Sunak might get in the way
Dear Richard,
I’m very excited about your YouTube channel. I have been Trying to understand economics since Yanis Varoufakis clashed with the Eurozone finance ministers in 2015. I have been following you and several others such as, Ann Pettifor, Marianna Mazzucato, Stephanie Kelton, Steve Keen and Richard Wolff for a few years now.
Today during BBC lunchtime news I heard discussion of the need for huge government borrowing to combat the Covid-19 crisis. I caught the beginning of Norman Lamont’s comments discussing how all this borrowing will have to be repaid. I’m intrigued as to why after so many years I have not witnessed a MMT challenge.
Why does the government have to borrow? Why can’t it print money and then remove it from the economy later via taxation? Can private banks create as much money as they please? Isn’t there some kind of oversight of fiat money creation by the Bank of England?
It seems to me that the “household budget fallacy” is still dominant amongst main stream media analysts.
All on the YouTube agenda
Richard
Once again appreciate the You Tube video.
I would value you opinion on this proposal from Dale Vince from Ecotricity regarding Green Gas Mills (disclaimer – I am a customer of them).
https://www.ecotricity.co.uk/our-green-energy/our-green-gas/what-is-green-gas
I think there is a small market for this if it is waste related – but to grow crops for it makes no sense at all