Fear is a treacherous leader. It shrinks from the new and fails to meet the challenges of the future. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Poor decision making in government; the tragedy of short-term economic thinking; our national housing crisis: these are real 21st Century problems for our country. They are problems that can only be solved by genuinely fearless thinking about our natural environment. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Addressing climate change globally promotes health, education and gender equality. Addressing it domestically secures U.K. jobs and sustainable clean economic growth; it protects communities from flooding and the scandal of fuel poverty. It begins to see clean air flow in our cities and schools. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Climate change is a shared crisis – one that transcends politics and borders and must be fought collectively, justly and transparently. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Classical economics values things by seeing how much someone will pay for them. But this is where classical economics is wrong. What it fails to account for are all the ‘externalities’ – the services people regard as free goods: pollination services, flood protection, climate regulation, soil stabilization, carbon sequestration. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
The Tories must stop focusing on their ideological obsession with a hard Brexit and their internal party divisions and start focusing on what is best for our country and our economy. Their absurd proposal that the U.K. should become the E.U.’s tariff collector is neither practical nor palatable across the Channel. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Normally I am clear beforehand about which single proposal in a binary choice I am going to vote for. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
It appears that President Trump wishes to disrupt the global multilateral trading system as much as possible. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
World leaders need to work together through the rules-based system of the WTO to tackle unfair practices, including the widespread dumping of steel on world markets at less than market price. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
