WHO CARES WINS
EPISODE 3 l 10 SEP 2020
CAN YOU AFFORD TO BE GREEN IF YOU’RE NOT RICH?
WITH PROFESSOR GUY STANDING, MAYOR TUBBS, NATALIE FOSTER, ALISON STINE AND DR JAMES SUZMAN
This week, Lily addresses a paradox in the environmental movement - affordability. Is our economy structured in a way that makes being environmental prohibitively expensive? Or are the wealthy creating most of the emissions? How do we afford sustainability and can we afford not to?
Speaking to a plethora of intellectuals, Lily explores the connections between equality and the environment - and looks at political solutions that seek to ally environmental sustainability with social justice. Lily speaks with the economist who has spent decades pushing forward a Universal Basic Income, Professor Guy Standing, co-founder of the Economic Security Project Natalie Foster and Mayor Tubbs who is leading a trial UBI project in California. This episode also includes writer Alison Stine, advocate of carbon pricing Elon Musk and anthropologist James Suzman who discusses the origins of inequality. As ever, Lily creates a space of discussion and discovery, encouraging us to seek optimism in the solutions that exist.
IN CONVERSATION WITH
MICHAEL TUBBS
POLITICIAN
NATALIE FOSTER
CO-FOUNDER OF THE ECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT