I’ve drafted a suggested Keir Starmer speech, next time Rishi Sunak or his client media attack Labour for their £28 billion per year green investment promise. Instead of being on the defensive, I suggest attack. Over to Keir …
“The World Economic Forum, a very conservative club, have now put extreme weather events as the top global risk for next decade. The International Energy Agency, another quite conservative institution, says that no new fossil fuel exploration are required to meet 2050 net zero goals. And at least half of the UK population actually want the 2050 goal brought forward, only 7% want it put back.
Yet the Prime Minister is deaf to the experts and deaf to popular opinion. He is now fully captive to the climate action delayists – actually climate change deniers – of the increasingly hard right of his Party.
If you want more extreme floods and more extreme heat waves, getting worse every year and,
if you want crop failures around the world spiking food prices and,
if you want petrostates and wars causing energy insecurity and poverty,
then vote Tory.
If you want instead a Government that is not in denial and truly acknowledges the serious risks we face and,
if you want a Government that will accelerate action on climate change by greening our energy, and protecting the ecosystems on which we depend and,
if you want a path to a sustainable future that is fair to all,
then vote Labour.”
(c) Richard W. Erskine, 2024
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Thank you Richard – totally agree with your sentiments but doubt there can be satisfactory resolution in any reasonable timescale of our numerous crises, with our present political system; with national, let alone internationally determined policy processes – for all the reasons that Schumacher, Kropotkin, Wittfogel et al so eloquently explained.
The good news is that those issues driving these crises (climate, energy, social inequality, etc) are really quite transparent at a local level and can be defined empirically, actually defining ‘best least cost’ solutions that should be a Right for us all. (Touched on in this presentation for Gloucestershire Churches, https://bit.ly/3C4lwwL ).
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Thanks for the link Julian
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Nice one Richard, I would offer to publish it on TSI website but might just break the charity rules!
See you soon.
Ian
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Well I wouldn’t want to do that, would I!
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