Climate policy must stand on common people's side

"Climate policy must be based on ordinary people's side"

"Aftonbladet's leader board is the independent social democrat."

"The lack of a social-democratic tone in Sweden's new environmental policies"

"What climate policy will be the actually when the social democrats to govern together with the green Party and make the state budget together with the Centre party and the Liberals? The issue raised in the radio miljömagasin "

"But there are dangers, particularly with regard to the green tax shift. In the so-called januariavtalet, the parties agree that the tax on labour and entrepreneurship should decrease, while environmental taxes will increase."

"– the Problem is that the tax cuts are made benefit mainly high-earners while all are affected by environmental taxes, and the risk to reinforce existing inequalities. It mainly concerns me when I look at the whole agreement is that the ongoing erosion of the welfare state-with, for example, cuts in unemployment benefits and weakened labor law, the mean miljöforskaren Anna Kaijser."

"There's simply no one social-democratic tone in Sweden's new environmental policy. It doesn't need to be. When Australia introduced a carbon tax, it used the money to cut taxes for those who earn the least and it raised the salaries of employees in the welfare system. Most households and virtually all poor households – earned on it and it was the rich who had to bear the costs."

"In France, they have chosen a different path. Here, the so-called " yellow vests protested for several months against the government's climate policy. It began as a protest in the countryside against the increase in petrol and diesel prices has become a rebellion against the rampant the cost of living and a policy that it does not stand on common people's side."

"Here in Sweden, the 87 so-called influencers – people who do the advertising for consumer goods – recently demanded that Stefan Löfven gives Sweden a climate"

"We clearly can't handle the freedom,” writes the 87. They are not alone to consider it. In this ödestid for climate change it is more people who think the elected officials to ignore the citizens, round democracy or that the questions should simply be lifted away from the elected parliaments and handed over to the enlightened despots."

"It is easy to understand powerlessness. The last four years have been the warmest ever recorded. The average temperature on earth is likely to rise by 3.2 degrees by the year 2100. The consequences would be disastrous. Disastrous would also be a technocratic omställningspolitik which does not take social considerations into account. For some people who are already living on the margin, it will lead to less money and a more difficult everyday life, and the frustration will not stop at writing articles."

"the Democratic politicians can not in the long run pursue policies that lack voter support. And they can also not turn a blind eye to the looming climate cataclysm. Lastly, it is where we end up. If the 87 debattartikelförfattarna and others want a change so they must be with and build a climate movement that is both radical and stands on ordinary people's side. "

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