In the midst of converging crises, the Green New Deal is the answer
Avi Lewis
Contributed to The Globe and Mail
Published 5 hours ago
Avi Lewis is a filmmaker and strategic director of The Leap
If you’re feeling a mounting sense of apocalyptic unease as you wash your hands and sing “Happy Birthday” for the eighth time this morning, you are not alone.
It is perfectly possible that before 2020 is half over, we will be in a global recession exacerbated by a pandemic and an oil price crash. And it is all playing out against the backdrop of a climate emergency that is proceeding at terrifying speed whether it is on the front pages or not.
But while stock markets veer between fear and greed, some of us find ourselves ricocheting from fear to hope. (And back again.)
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