Economic Insights: Increasingly, green parties and their appeals to environmental policy are becoming vehicles for larger economic agendas. The locus of these new ideas is “degrowth”: the idea that we must shrink our economies to achieve sustainability.
Elizabeth May and co-leadership candidate Jonathan Pedneault arrive on stage as May is elected the new leader of the Green Party in Ottawa on Nov. 19, 2022. For progressives watching the rise of right-wing populists in the developed world, accusations of charlatanism are a ward against evil.
They point to right-wing parties’ use of identity issues such as immigration and racial resentment as stalking horses for economic aims such as cutting taxes, decreasing welfare spending and reducing regulation on businesses. Increasingly, however, hidden economic agendas can be found among the left as well.
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