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The climate chasm at the heart of British politics
WHILE there are significant gaps between reality and the policies of the British governing elite on many issues, arguably none is wider and more terrifying than the ongoing climate chasm.
The frightening reality of the worsening climate crisis should be clear to anyone paying attention. So while the Guardian recently published the headline “Deal to keep 1.5°C hopes alive is within reach, says Cop28 president,” in 2021 the top climate scientist Dr James Hansen had already noted: “There is now no chance whatever of keeping global warming below 1.5°C.”
As he argued earlier this year: “We are not moving into a 1.5°C world, we are briefly passing through it in 2024. We will pass through the 2°C world in the 2030s unless we take purposeful actions to affect the planet’s energy balance.”
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Green Party reaction to Sunak’s ‘Be Very Afraid’ Policy Exchange speech
Responding to the prime minister’s ‘security’ speech at Policy Exchange, in which Rishi Sunak said “we must be prepared strategically, economically, with robust plans and greater national resilience, to meet this time of instability with strength, co-leader of the Green Party Adrian Ramsay said:
“The prime minister’s speech on security failed to make a single mention of the threats posed by climate change in spite of the government’s own Climate Change Committee being clear that this is one of the biggest challenges of our generation. With land and sea temperature records being broken on an almost daily basis, this is an emergency.
“Yet instead of announcing any new climate commitments, Sunak chose instead to vilify those pushing for climate action, accusing them of ideological zeal. He also trotted out the tired excuse for inaction, that the costs of achieving Net Zero were too great and would disrupt people’s lives. The reality is that the Conservatives’ decision to listen to the siren song of the fossil fuel industry means we are being left behind in the economic transition.
“The Green Party understands that the cost of inaction on climate far outweighs the cost of action. We also know the huge disruption to people’s lives that climate breakdown will cause. That’s why Greens want to see investment in insulating homes and turbocharging renewable energy. These sorts of investments will bring down people’s energy bills, create thousands of new jobs and give us real energy security.”
‘Desperate scaremongering from a Prime Minister that has run out of road’
WHY IS PARLIAMENT’S GENOCIDE WATCHDOG SO SILENT ON GAZA?
https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-is-parliaments-genocide-watchdog-so-silent-on-gaza/
Seven months into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, there remains little appetite among the Britain’s political class to end the slaughter, even after close to 40,000 Palestinians have been killed.
But the indifference to Palestinian suffering does not appear confined to individual politicians and vested party interests. Rather, it is a culture across Westminster.
One example is the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide (APPG-G).
This is a cross-party group which apparently aims to ensure Britain does all it can to stop genocides and crimes against humanity.
Yet the group has shown no urgency to save lives in Gaza.
Its chairwoman is Fleur Anderson, an opposition MP for Putney. She is also listed as a parliamentary member of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI).
Can her APPG really be committed to preventing genocide while she also participates in a lobby group that whitewashes settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing in Palestine?
Just in January, LFI organised its largest solidarity delegation to Israel in over a decade and proudly posed with president Isaac Herzog.
They went there even as Israel was on trial for genocide at the World Court and Herzog himself was singled out for his dangerous language as evidence of incitement.
A closer inspection of Anderson’s work is revealing. In November, during parliament’s vote for an immediate ceasefire, 56 Labour MPs defied the party whip and voted for it.
Anderson was not one of them.
Less than a month later, she spoke in the House of Commons about the importance of parliamentarians doing more to ensure genocides never happen.
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Article continues at https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-is-parliaments-genocide-watchdog-so-silent-on-gaza/