Readers Dave Hunter, David Cragg-James, Raj Parkash and Joy Webb are unimpressed by the government’s approach to the climate emergency, as set out in Alok Sharma’s Guardian article
Alok Sharma’s article (Time is running short – but we can get a grip on the climate crisis, 18 March) confirmed that this government’s approach to the climate emergency is the same as it is to all the other iniquities its ideology exacerbates, such as poverty, inequality and homelessness. They announce a relatively small injection of cash and a couple of initiatives, careful not to disturb the underlying practices causing the problems. If he and his colleagues were serious and really followed the science, they would end all subsidies to, and investment in, fossil fuel industries. They would also implement curbs to reduce energy and resource consumption, direct and indirect, by the UK population. That would be global leadership and would set a course for a just transition.
The government’s proposals are nothing more than a smokescreen to suggest we tried, while baking in failure for our generation and horror for those that follow.
Dave Hunter
Bristol
