ALL of the environmental chaos we are seeing now is exactly what the Green movement has been warning about for decades ...
conference always energises our movement. It’s a chance to meet with members and campaigners from all over Scotland, to reflect on all we’ve done and plan for the months and years ahead. It’s a place to hear from activists and discuss the bold, positive and inspiring change that our planet and people need and how we get there.
I badly wish we had been wrong. But the reality is that predictions written off by some as alarmist have not just been proven correct, they are now looking conservative. This weekend’s conference in Edinburgh is taking place against a particularly urgent backdrop. With global temperatures reaching record levels we are at a historic crossroads, and green change is more vital than ever.
There has been important progress since then; free bus travel for young people, an end to new incineration, a ban on the worst single-use plastics, record funding for recycling, active travel and nature. These are all things that we Scottish Green MSPs have championed and delivered. The rapid expansion of theThese are all important achievements in their own right, especially when compared to the outright climate vandalism of Downing Street.
Climate breakdown hasn’t happened overnight. It has been the failure of generations of politicians, some of whom sincerely fell for the hot air of the fossil fuel industry and some who understood the scale of the threat but carried on regardless. The Climate Change Committee report can’t simply be another wake-up call. We’ve had far too many of them. It must be a clarion call for change, and Scottish Green MSPs and our members will be using every ounce of influence we have to ensure that it is.
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