We can facilitate this process by introducing a public job guarantee (a policy that happens to be resoundingly popular24), so that anyone who wants to work can get a job doing socially useful things that communities actually need, like care, essential services, building renewable energy infrastructure, growing local food, and regenerating degraded ecosystems – paid at a living wage.25 Indeed, a job guarantee is one of the single most powerful environmental policies a government could implement, because it enables us to have an open conversation about scaling down destructive industries without
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