"If we don't take action, we could be charged with genocide."
COMMONSPACE August Forum featured a talk from Richard Murphy on his plans for a Green New Deal for Scotland.
He states that the Green New Deal is about three things: tackling climate change; dealing with biodiversity; and challenging the inequalities that have been created in our society.
CommonSpace speaks to Cath Andrews of Ecological Defence Integrity, who seek to have wide-scale environmental destruction ranked alongside genocide and war crimes under international law
AS ENVIRONMENTAL activists around the world press for greater action to combat the climate emergency, much attention has understandably been paid to their high-profile campaigns, such as this year’s climate strikes, and to proposed legislative solutions, such as the various formulations of a Green New Deal being considered in both the United States and Scotland.
Mary MacCallum Sullivan, a psychotherapist from Argyll and CS columnist, says Common Weal’s new campaign slogan ‘escape and repair’ raises questions about Scotland’s relationship to Britain after independence – can we really escape the UK’s constitutional crisis?
Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine argues that the opportunity presented by the Brexit crisis could be squandered if the leadership of the independence movement continues to refuse to lead
DO YOU know what the component parts of an iPhone are? Not an iPhone. Do you know what the Ingredients of a cake are? Not a cake.
So when you peer through your fingers at the state of governance in the UK and the ferment of change taking place around the world, what you see are the ingredients for independence, its component parts. What you do not see is independence.
Common Weal Campaigns Officer Jonathon Shafi says that a much greater level of ambition and a willingness to break with economic orthodoxy are necessary if the Scottish Government really is to deliver a Green New Deal
Richard Murphy, member of the Green New Deal Group and Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City, University of London, spoke at a sold-out CommonSpace Forum on 29 August on a Green New Deal for Scotland (pictured above). In preparation for the talk, Murphy wrote this long read essay on his vision for a Green New Deal. We publish it in full below.
Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine says the potential for Scotland to make good on the promise of a Green New Deal is a reason to be cheerful
I KNOW this is counterintuitive, but I'm feeling hopeful. I know that many of you will be somewhere in the depths of despair but at least in Scotland I think it is important that we project hope. And I think there is good reason we should.
