What George Monbiot thinks about tariffs
Guardian columnist and environmental writer. He republishes every column at monbiot.com with its original date, which makes him one of the few public writers whose reversals can be read against the pieces they reverse.
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Our reading · no longer heldLocalisation - producing locally everything that can be produced locally - is the right answer to unjust global trade.
Recalls holdingThe only thing worse than a world with the wrong international trade rules is a world with no trade rules at all.
SaidMy conversion came on the day I heard a speaker demand a cessation of most forms of international trade and then, in answering a question from the audience, condemn the economic sanctions on Iraq.