The Wire

As the world struggles with both the global financial crisis and the looming climate crisis, a new sense of urgency has entered the talks between the leaders of our main economies and the leaders of developing nations. But while our heads of state have managed to co-operate on an unprecedented scale to fix our economic problems, the same can’t be said for our environment. So why is this? Tony Kevin, author of a new book “Crunch time – using and abusing Keynes to fight the twin crises of our era” says what he thinks is going on and how we can fix the problem. “Crunch time” is published by Scribe.