The climate crisis has raised the need for large-scale, broad-ranging, and publicly led economic transformation. By necessity, this will be a multilayered project demanding political reform to get the fossil fuel lobby out of politics and to reverse the privatization of energy production and distribution. And as proposals for a Just Transition or a Green New Deal adapted to Australia make clear, decarbonizing the economy must be directly linked with lifting living standards and creating good jobs.
The success of these projects, however, will rise and fall on the extent to which they place power in the hands of everyday people and,…
The Free Market Can’t Lead a Clean Energy Transition
