Rethinking Economics Festival

So much going on with the Zoom platform... I am zooming all over lol in my slippers from home... I loved going to meetings when out and about with my Freedom pass and now the pass is gathering dust in my handbag as meeting come to me... my arthritic knees grateful for this.. 

Today was lovely joined a lunch time coffee social and it was good to share with like minds and innovative minds on the need to rethink economics.  We all had concern over climate change and our need to change... I am getting used to the Zoom room allocations to break up into groups... and this is great connecting time. Was lovely to meet Cameron from Manchester.. we could have talked for hours on all he is doing and what I am doing. 

Just now I have been in a webinar presentation asking Why is the Economics profession not treating the Climate Crisis as a Crisis.... 
My thoughts are that we the general public should get more involved with economics as our whole lives are affected by models and policies. So instead of being passive participators we need to question when there is pain in society from badly thought out economic policies.  Economics i am seeing is an interweave of sociology, health & well being of individuals and communities, it needs to have respect for life on earth and this planet home.  So it is reassuring we have groups that are challenging established models of thoughts and policy. 
There are some links to share  Rethinking Economics
Econ4future with pdf report The pdf is downloadable entitled Beyond Economics as Usual - treating a crisis like a crisis. 

"The task of decarbonising the global economy is enormous. The task of doing so in a just way that

enables prosperity is more enormous still. And the task of doing both in the narrow window of time we

have left to avert the worst consequences of environmental breakdown leaves the enormity of this task

with few historical parallels. The stakes are huge. If we are going to have a fighting chance of tackling

this, it will need the hearts and minds of as many of this planet's eight billion people as possible. Everyone

must, in countless different ways, play their part."