It is necessary to act on two fronts: to ensure the consolidation of the public finances and to implement the long-awaited reforms that will enable our economy to be an active partner in the world economic recovery. The measures reducing current expenditure must be introduced into legislation immediately, even if the effects are deferred, not put off to further legislative acts or administrative decisions.
Climate change is linked to what we have been saying so far. The post-war exponential demographic acceleration – the “population explosion” – prompted discussion of the “limits to growth”.