Marshalling your argument Share The Prime Minister's proposal for a modern-day green Marshall Plan has a huge amount to recommend it, but can he really build a coalition to deliver such ambitious investment while cutting Overseas Development Aid? A lot of historical analogies have been deployed to try and capture the full scope and significance of the global effort to avert a climate crisis. It's like the industrial revolution, like a war effort, like the civil rights movement, like the campaign to end slavery, like the suffragettes, like the digital revolution, like the moon missions. The truth is it is like all these things and none of them. It will involve an industrial revolution, but it has to be bigger and faster than any previous economic transformations; it needs the co-ordination and ambition of a war effort, but harnessed for co-operation rather than conflict; it may well need global enlightenment and an historic extension of civil rights, but that alone will not be sufficient.