The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response - Climate change - Joseph Stiglitz - The Guardian 🔗 🌍 🌡

Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake

The war on the climate emergency, if correctly waged, would actually be good for the economy – just as the second world war set the stage for America’s golden economic era , with the fastest rate of growth in its history amidst shared prosperity. The Green New Deal would stimulate demand, ensuring that all available resources were used; and the transition to the green economy would likely usher in a new boom.