Joshua Taggart

Joshua Taggart is a researcher of environmental economics at the Entrepreneurs Network. The views contained herein are solely of the author.

Articles

Energy & Environment

Business owners want to be greener – it’s time for the Government to support their ambitions

If the Government wants to get us to Net Zero by 2050, then bringing SMEs along for the ride will be essential. The British Business Bank estimates that British SMEs are responsible for a third of all of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. So to put it simply, we will not achieve Net Zero by […]

Economics

No, capitalism is not killing the planet

In his latest piece for The Guardian, George Monbiot argued that ‘Capitalism is killing the planet‘. In it, Monbiot advocates for a ‘degrowther’ ideology, and supports a wealth tax along ‘limitarian’ lines: ‘we need to level down… just as there is a poverty line below which no one should fall, there is a wealth line […]