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The recent IPCC report on climate change has once again brought the climate emergency into focus, representing a ‘code red for humanity’, according to the UN Chief. As temperatures and sea levels rise, extreme weather events become more frequent, and our planetary support systems break down, the need for a comprehensive Green transition has never been clearer.

Could a basic income be a key part of this Green transition?

Where some worry that that basic income could become a fund for even more consumption, others see the policy as a key component in broader visions of change - from a Green New Deal, integrating social and environmental justice, to a ‘degrowth’ movement, which challenges infinite economic expansion on a finite planet.

Could a basic income help uncouple ideas of productivity and usefulness from carbon-intensive production? Could it allow people to take control of their consumption and put human capabilities to Greener and more worthy ends? Could taxing resource-intensive and polluting activities even be part of how a basic income is funded?

Our speakers are:

Baroness Natalie Bennett

Natalie Bennett served as Leader of the Green Party for England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. She has also previously worked as a journalist, writing and editing for publications including The Guardian, The Independent and The Times. Natalie’s campaign work has been instrumental in shifting basic income from a utopian ideal to a pragmatic proposal in the public eye. She has been a long time advocate of basic income, conceived as a way of linking economic and environmental justice.

Michael Howard

Michael Howard is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maine, where he covers topics including workplace and economic democracy, global justice and basic income. In addition to his involvement in various peace and justice organisations globally, Michael is the co-ordinator of the US Basic Income Guarantee Network, co-editor of the Basic Income Studies journal, and an active member of the Basic Income Earth Network.