Climate breakdown is coming. The UK needs a Greener New Deal | Jason Hickel

Global economic growth is outstripping our green efforts. A cap must be put on consumption before is it cripples usWhen the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published their latest report in October, the message was stark: if the planet wants to avert dangerous climate breakdown, we need to cut emissions in half by 2030, and hit net zero by the middle of the century.It would be difficult to overstate how dramatic this trajectory is. It represents a total and rapid reversal of our present direction as a civilisation. We've built up a global energy infrastructure around fossil fuels over 200 years, and now we need to completely transform it in 30. Continue reading...