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In the last weeks, more and more companies have been asking for financial bail-outs by the state. The federal government was taking decisions on a day-to-day basis, while lacking a certain long-term coherency to decide which companies would be worth saving and which not. In a well-functioning market economy, opportunities and risks are inseparably interlinked - that is why the present escape of the owners out of their responsibilities cannot continue. In those cases in which many blue-collar workers would lose their jobs if the company was left without help, the state could decide to intervene – nevertheless the essential condition of every rescue must be an adjustment of the company’s strategy, combining ecology and economy.
The worldwide economic crisis, the climate crisis and the food-supply crisis share the same origin – our unsustainable way of living, working, producing and transporting. That is why we, as Green partisans, want to implement a “new green social contract”. More than 1.8 million people work already in the field of renewable energies and ecological agriculture. The development of employment rates in these sectors look very promising, too – by 2020, the number of people working in these fields is expected to double. This will not entirely compensate for the jobs lost during the current depression. Nevertheless, the green industries will serve as role-models for the entire economy: companies in the engineering industry, the chemical and electrical industry will have to “think green” and improve their efforts in areas such as energy efficiency, recycling, water-, sewerage- and waste-management and create intelligent and sustainable logistics solutions. It is the legislator’s job to provide enough incentives: we have to develop an innovative administrative law, make ample and wise public investments, take shares in sustainable companies and improve our educational system.
In a nutshell, our “Green New Deal” rests upon three pillars. First, we want to invest more than 20 billion € per year in climate protection, education and social justice. Second, we want to set tougher rules for the financial markets and, finally, we aim at designing and implementing a more equitable world trade model respecting the interests of the poorest people on earth.
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