Fight the climate crisis or go for growth? There is a way Burnham can do both | Jonathan Freedland
Plenty of activists will tell you there’s no contradiction, that tackling the climate crisis makes economic as well as ecological sense and, in the long term, you know they’re right.
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- The environmental and economic dilemmas he faces are formidable but, with a bold plan, he could set an example for leaders around the world For politicians of the centre-left especially, it’s the great dilemma of the age.
- This week, he addressed the Cop summit in Antalya, promising “a new era of British leadership” in the struggle against global heating.
It’s important to him to talk that way: his political strategy relies on shrinking the appeal of the Green party, whose electoral success earlier this year helped remove his predecessor.
How do you do what everyone can see is essential to save the planet from boiling – even as your voters demand action to get the economy growing and to make life more affordable?
- You’re running the government right now and facing several unavoidable, binary choices.
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