Nick Pearce
About Nick Pearce
Nick Pearce is the National Convenor of the Green Economy Network, a coalition of labour unions and civil society organizations. A former journalist, he holds a Master’s of Global Affairs from the University of Toronto, with a specialization in Environmental Studies.
The world’s dumbest trade war makes going green a matter of survival
Putting up thousands of wind turbines and hundreds of solar farms, means more jobs, less global warming and less reliance on the boom and bust oil and gas sector that handcuffs us to the U.S.
Political headwinds means death to some climate policies. Others may survive.
An electorally-vulnerable climate policy must recognize it is easier to build political coalitions around concrete, specific projects that provide more jobs, more public goods and a lower cost of living, rather than creating obscure, diffuse benefits. Photo by Trinh Trần/Pexels