A manifesto for the future

2020/05/13 Roa Zubia, Guillermo - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Ekonomia
• COVID-19

The manifesto includes five points, five main ideas:

1. Eliminate the development model based on the aggregate growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

2. Promote, from public institutions, policies of production, investment and consumption that take into account the ecological limitations.

3. Design and implement progressive environmental taxation, avoiding overexploitation of natural resources and combating the climate crisis and degradation of ecosystems.

4º Eliminate a mobility model based on large unsustainable infrastructures and modes of transport that generate excessive environmental, economic and social costs.

5. Transformation of the agro-food system to advance food sovereignty based on agroecology.

For those who want to read the manifesto signed by hundreds of scientists and professors, it is available on the website euskalherriapostcovid19.eus.