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But Hayes said they saw the Great Recession as an opportunity to help persuade people to "make profound changes" to "our economic systems".
However, if Pope Francis is correct that responding to climate change requires fundamental changes to our economic model — and I think he is correct — then it will take an extraordinarily broad-based movement to demand those changes, one capable of navigating political disagreements.
This divide between Wall Street and Main Street, which I explore in my book Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street, has been building for 40 years now, a product of myriad changes to our economic and political system that has left us with a kind of capitalism in which the tail – the banking system – is wagging the dog, meaning the real economy.
To claim that we should not pursue any changes to our economic structures in light of a distributive justice argument is, by its very nature, to take a stand on the distributive justice of (or, if one prefers, the 'morality' of) the current distribution and structures in the society compared to any of the possible alternative distributions and structures practically available.
But it is remarkable how our political system freezes shut just when we need to make serious changes to our economic system.
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Rapid change to our economic structure is inevitable.
The president then puts forth a values-based linkage of government's role in tackling climate change, refuting climate deniers and linking addressing climate change to our "economic vitality" and natural "national treasure".
Such drastic changes to our social and economic way of life would perhaps not be so bad if it wasn't recommended in such a silly way as in the Commission of Audit report.
Or will they keep it on and embrace contradiction, as I am doing by supporting the Pope's bold writings on how responding to the climate crisis requires deep changes to our growth-driven economic model — while disagreeing with him about a whole lot else?
And the changes to our cultural and economic landscape aren't necessarily for the better".
We can and should start with changes to our legal system to protect our economic future.
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