No backtracking on climate targets! EMERGENCY DEMO

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No backtracking on climate targets!


EMERGENCY DEMO
Next week: Monday 16th
8.00 am at Lib Dem HQ, at 4 Cowley Street, Westminster
Demand the Lib Dems stand up for their environmental principles! Or are they just poodles to the Tory right?
8.45 am Move on to Downing Street
Demand that Cameron stick by all he argued for when he supported the Climate Act. Or was that all just green posturing? Is this the most green-backtracking government ever?


This looks like crunch time for this government, and for the country on whether we will have any meaningful targets on emission cuts, or whether they will be watered down in the interests of the business lobby and short term economic interest every time…


See:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/09/climate-defining-green-moment-cameron
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/09/friends-earth-ipcc-proposals-policy
www.monbiot.com/2011/05/09/shaking-the-tree/
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/09/vince-cable-chris-huhne-carbon-emissions
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13343055


The crucial decision will be taken at a meeting on Monday… hence the timing of this demo


Never mind that the targets - even before they are watered down - are not stringent enough in the light of the latest science, anyway. Never mind that the UK’s whole carbon-cutting strategy will rapidly unravel once regular budgets for cutting emissions like this are not maintained. Never mind that delaying emissions cuts risks putting a fatal amount of carbon in the atmosphere before we ever get to making those cuts anyway. Never mind that the fate of billions hangs on us actually getting to grips with the climate crisis and making it our number one priority. Never mind that we will never be able to influence other countries effectively if here at home we are seen to put our own economic welfare before the global environment we share with the rest of the world….


…still it looks like short sighted, short term, economic considerations are threatening to take us down the path to misery and suffering on a colossal, unimaginable, scale…


Don’t let them get aw ay with this, without any visible opposition! Join us outside the Lib Dem HQ and Downing Street on Monday morning!


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