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Following #AngelaRayner and #RachelReeves' announcements:-
"Building homes and infrastructure promises a quick return on investment.
Some of the infrastructure priorities are of questionable value.
Expanded house-building alone will greatly increase emissions and resource use while not creating the kind of communities we need.
There are alternative paths that the government could follow to meet social and ecological goals".
#Labour's #BuildingBoom
Our analysis.
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2024/07/18/build-build-build-for-growth-growth-growth/#analysis -
On #Labour and its proposed #BuildingBoom.
"The emphasis on building is the result of a combination of factors. The obvious ones are the need for improved infrastructure (although the type required is a field of contestation) and the housing crisis (although the extent to which building more houses is the answer, is also subject to debate)."
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A new report from #cles. On the tin it says "A new vision for community wealth and power" - while maybe it isn't quite that, there are some sound things in there. For example:
"Rather than prioritising high growth and frontier sectors, which can realistically only hope to support the economy of a few places, the emphasis should be on a just transition within the everyday economy."
Building-community-wealth-and-power-FINAL.pdf https://cles.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Building-community-wealth-and-power-FINAL.pdf
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We are pleased to share this article translated by SSM's Mark Burton and colleagues from the Translators for Transition list. it is by Jorge Riechmann, one of the foremost #degrowth scholars from Spain.
http://steadystatemanchester.net/2023/08/11/ecological-transitions-and-energy-transitions/