Social Justice in Norwich

We will not achieve a carbon zero economy, unless we make that economy work for everyone, not just the rich. We learnt in the pandemic that people will do the right thing if they can afford to. And if they can’t afford to, they will not be able to do the right thing, whether they want to or not.

Other parties will tell you the solution to poverty is growth, so that the rich get even richer and there are bigger cake crumbs for those at the bottom. But the problem with economic growth is that it requires energy, and we do not yet have enough sources of green energy to do this, while achieving a net zero carbon economy

Which is why the Green Party talks about re balancing the economy, by which we mean changing the distribution of wealth away from the  richest 10% of households who hold 43% of all wealth to the poorest 50%, who have jusr 9%. We dont want bigger cakes, just bigger slices.

But we don’t have to wait for a more favourable government to come along .Listed here are thing the green party supports to make it easier for people to afford a carbon neutral economy