At the beginning of our October Rebellion, we asked the UK Government departments: ‘What is your plan for the Planetary Emergency?
We are buiding plans for more beautiful & more creative ways to bring the message of climate and ecological crisis to millions.
We are ever mindful of governmental shortcomings:
- Since the UK Parliament declared a ‘symbolic’ Climate and Environmental Emergency on May 1, we seen neither truth nor action.
- Populations of UK’s most important wildlife have plummeted with 25% of mammals and nearly 50% of birds assessed at risk of extinction.
- The Joint Nature Conservation Committee has found that the UK is on track to miss 14 of the 19 of its biodiversity targets.
- It is falling well short of a commitment to plant 11m trees by 2022. Even if achieved, it would nullify just one hour of global emissions.
- Of 25 key policies recommended by the Government’s advisers to address the Emergency, it has implemented just one.
- The Queen’s Speech devoted six words to the Emergency.
- The recent announcement of a Cabinet Committee to address the Emergency prevents legal action against Ministers for failings until 2037.
- It used our taxes to increase funding for overseas fossil fuel projects elevenfold last year
- It has allocated more overseas cash to oil and gas in the two years since signing the Paris Agreement than it had in the previous five
- It provides 25 times more overseas funding to fossil fuels than to renewables
- Despite appeals from former UN head Ban-Ki Moon to stop, it continues to lock in countries to a fossil fuel future and extract wealth from the Global South
- Our Government has the highest fossil fuel subsidies in the EU, it is still backing fracking, Heathrow’s third runway, and HS2 – one of the largest deforestation projects in the country since World War I
- Our Government defied advisers’ climate concerns to approve yet another new gas-powered power plant
- Our Government faces wasting millions of pounds of taxpayer money on fines from Europe’s highest court for breaching air pollution limits.
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Love and rage in the face of extinction.
Until we win!