ADPD unveils ‘Green Vision’ as alternative to government’s Vision 2050
Green Party slams government's limitless growth-driven model as “business as usual”
ADPD on Thursday presented an alternative “Green Vision” to the government’s Vision 2050 insisting environmental and social goals can only be reached with a “green economy that corrects the balance of power between civil society and big business”.
The Green Party slammed the government’s proposals for being based on the “economic orthodoxy of growth without any limits”.
ADPD general secretary Ralph Cassar said its Green Vision “seeks to offer an alternative narrative, integrating social, ecological and economic imperatives in policy making” based on the concept of wellbeing rather than limitless growth.
“Green for all rather than greed for the few, at the expense of many,” Cassar said.
The party’s Green Vision is based on the five principles of wellbeing, justice, limits and planetary boundaries, efficiency and sufficiency, and good governance.
Cassar criticised the government’s Vision 2050 as “business a usual” despite seemingly offering “somewhat green” options.
“Resource use is hardly tackled, education and public services are seen as servants of the market, and land and sea as exploitable commodities,” Cassar added.
ADPD chairperson Sandra Gauci urged a “paradigm shift” is necessary including an EU-wide transition.
“We need to fundamentally transform Europe’s economy, renouncing the pressure for growth and redirect it together to ecological and social aims,” Gauci said.
ADPD’s Green Vision revolves around a reduction in resource use, penalising pollution, a reappraisal of taxation which favours companies according to social, ecological, democratic, and economic criteria, as well as other public interest criteria.