WEDNESDAY: Greening the Global (and Massachusetts) Economy

WEDNESDAY: Greening the Global (and Massachusetts) Economy

We can stop climate catastrophe 

If we are up to the challenge! 

Here’s How: 

An Open Forum with Dr. Robert Pollin:

Co-director, Political Economy Research Institute and Professor of Economics @ UMASS-Amherst; 

Author: Greening the Global Economy (M.I.T. Press);

Wednesday, October, 5, 7pm

Cambridge Friends Meeting
5 Longfellow Park

Come hear Robert Pollin lay out his economic plan for how we can meet the carbon reduction targets that will actually avert climate catastrophe, generate vast numbers of new jobs and protect those employed by fossil fuel energy companies.

Great things are happening in Massachusetts. And across the country. Are they enough to stop catastrophic climate change? How would we know? What would be required to actually bring about success?
Is it possible to prevent climate change as long as the U.S. engages in constant war and preparation for war? The U.S. Pentagon with its wars, bases and weaponry is the largest single producer of carbon emissions on the face of the earth. And a major goal of these wars is to protect the constant expansion of the global economy and the fossil fuel energy system that powers it.
In addition to Dr. Pollin’s talk/discussion and a brief presentation on how climate and anti-war activists can connect their issues, we will discuss important climate initiatives and opportunities for action this fall.
Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action, 350MA, Unitarian Universalist Mass. Action, Clean Water Action, Sierra Club-Mass Chapter, American Friends Service Committee, 350MA Cambridge Node, Green Cambridge

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