Policy
Green-Link takes the view that business as usual, market fundamentalism, and neoliberal assumptions are not leading us toward a viable future and never were likely to.
Mainstream policy still tends to assume that growth, price signals, investment incentives, and marginal adjustments will somehow steer us out of climate change, ecological overshoot, and social fragmentation. That faith is misplaced.
The green mainstream often narrows the discussion to what is acceptable within current orthodoxies. But if those orthodoxies are part of the problem, policy has to become more ambitious, more structural, and in some cases more openly radical.
BAU politics is deeply entangled with assumptions about endless growth, investor confidence, consumer choice, and the moral authority of markets. Those assumptions are not neutral. They shape what is thinkable, and they repeatedly exclude the kinds of responses that might actually matter.
Where the green orthodoxy treats transition as a largely technical correction to an otherwise acceptable system, Green-Link starts from the possibility that the system itself is driving us in the wrong direction.
More radical policy ideas are likely to be necessary: changes in ownership, planning, public coordination, resource use, democratic control, and institutional priorities. Action will also matter beyond formal policy, because institutions do not usually transform themselves simply because the evidence gets stronger.
Green-Link should be a place where those possibilities can be explored without pretending that market liberalism, polite managerialism, or branding exercises are enough.
