‘Becoming a green, sustainable society:’ Shorter work weeks is one of several strategies

A new study conducted by Autonomy, an independent, progressive think tank focusing on work, concluded that citizens throughout Europe needed to shorten their work weeks to avoid global warming, unless each country drastically reduces their carbon emissions.

Workers in the U.K., Sweden and Germany all need to reduce their work hours to somewhere around nine hours a week to avoid the planet from heating to more than 2 degrees Celsius research concluded.

“Becoming a green, sustainable society will require a number of strategies – a shorter working week being just one of them,” Will Stronge, the director of Autonomy, said. “This paper and the other nascent research in the field should give us plenty of food for thought when we consider how urgent a Green New Deal is and what it should look like.”

Read the starry from Nation of Change by Ashley Curtin - “‘Becoming a green, sustainable society:’ Shorter work weeks is one of several strategies.”

Final leaders' debate: Shorten slams climate inaction as Morrison focuses on tax

Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten pitched competing visions for Australia in the decade ahead, as the two leaders faced off in the final debate of the election campaign.

Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten during the third and
final election debate at the National Press Club.

With just 10 days to go before the 18 May poll, which Labor is favoured to win, Morrison and Shorten locked horns on a range of policy areas, mostly focused on Labor’s tax reform agenda.

Outlining his vision for Australia in 10 years’ time, Morrison focused on jobs and infrastructure spending, while Shorten nominated climate change, equality and the pursuit of a “modern Australia”.

“I want us to be a nation which is more equal and, in becoming more equal, what we’ll actually deliver is a more prosperous and wealthy nation for my kids and, indeed, their kids after that,” Shorten told the National Press Club debate.

Read the story from The Guardian by Sarah Martin - “Final leaders' debate: Shorten slams climate inaction as Morrison focuses on tax."