http://politicalclimate.net/2010/06/28/the-politics-of-climate-change/ Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:30:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://politicalclimate.net/2010/06/28/the-politics-of-climate-change/#comment-380 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:01:35 +0000 http://politicalclimate.net/?p=477#comment-380 [...] on the state of the debate on the politics of climate change from Matthew Lockwood at Political [...]

]]> http://politicalclimate.net/2010/06/28/the-politics-of-climate-change/#comment-371 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:29:17 +0000 http://politicalclimate.net/?p=477#comment-371 As Director of the Greater Manchester Environment Commsion I would loved to have been inmvolved but location of the meetings prevented this.I am drawn to the idea of reframing, but am surprised at lack of links to more traditional preoccupations of social justice and poverty , which are going to be necessary to strike the right note in a recession.Thus we need to guard against the notion that we are fightting a war aganist over consumption per se- there are many in Manchester and welse where whose carbon footprint and use of scarce resources is comparatively small because of their own poverty .How would a sustainable economics underpinning energy policies tackle the issues they confront?

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