Whether we leave the European Union or whether we stay, the United Kingdom must put environmental protection and climate change at the top of our agenda. We must break the link between economic growth and habitat destruction. This is a major political challenge because it requires us all to change our expectations about how we live in the future, and it requires the government to make bold decisions, where currently lip-service is paid. It means breaking the neoliberal mythology of free markets and growth. We need a new economic and social narrative. Brexit is not a solution; nor is it a start. It takes us in the wrong direction - the direction of seeking trade deals at any cost, an not least with the United States. One problem with the financial crisis of 2008/9 is that it focused attention on the banking system as if it could be separated from global economics. It fostered the notion that all that was needed was to reform the banks and all would be...
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