{"id":63925,"date":"2022-07-20T07:46:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=63925"},"modified":"2022-07-20T07:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:46:23","slug":"we-need-a-green-new-deal-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/07\/20\/we-need-a-green-new-deal-more-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"We need a Green New Deal, more than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before getting Covid last week I met with some members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/greennewdealgroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green New Deal Group<\/a> to discuss strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The sad conclusion was that no one has yet done anything to act on the recommendations that we made in 2008. What is more, our analysis that we faced energy, food and economic crises remains exactly as we said back then, except everything is worse. So we needed to keep on keeping on.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because of this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-63926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-20-at-07.38.47-550x343.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-20-at-07.38.47-550x343.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-20-at-07.38.47-482x300.png 482w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-20-at-07.38.47-768x478.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-20-at-07.38.47-1536x957.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-20-at-07.38.47-600x374.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-20-at-07.38.47.png 1644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the climate crisis became real for some people in the UK. In terms of the heat it did so for a great many more.<\/p>\n<p>We need a Green New Deal. As a group, we never expected to create the idea that is essential to the transformation of our society into one that might be sustainable, but inadvertently we did and gave that transformation a name.<\/p>\n<p>When will the political parties listen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before getting Covid last week I met with some members of the Green New Deal Group to discuss strategy. The sad conclusion was that no<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/07\/20\/we-need-a-green-new-deal-more-than-ever\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,108,16,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-ethics","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}