There is a petion going around to get Rishi to undo his latest net zero plans. Strangely it does seem to diverge somewhat the further down you read. It has amassed only 7200 signatures since launching 48hrs ago!
It reads:
I, like many others, were flabbergasted and outraged at the news released on Wednesday 20th September that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has decided to scrap upcoming policies such as delaying the bans on new Private Internal Combustion Engine vehicles —reducing boosts to nationwide car sharing altogether, phasing out gas boiler installations, removing higher taxes on flying, and promoting dietician services that help promote a largely more plant-based common diet.
Rishi Sunak’s very drastic, dangerous and controversially fast decision to cut these policies was initially from the view of them being unnecessary to adopt — citing that it would be unnecessary because “the UK is already cutting carbon emissions faster than many other big economies”, according to a BBC news report.
Climate activists such as myself have been advocating for small measures such as these to be implemented for over 40 years, and with good reason. Whilst the UK may be cutting it’s carbon emissions faster than many other large economies, it still forms one of the largest links in the global economic chain — being a former colonial empire owner of many countries, a major contributor to exported labour and trade that in itself contributes to global climate change, and a nation situated within the northern global hemisphere.
The Global hemisphere generally tends to include some of the more materially rich countries — ones which very economies depend on the trade of products and services that are almost entirely removed from excessive manual labour generally found in modern slavery, and also countries whose legacy actions from colonialism have transcended overt racism by continuing harmful treatment of black, asian, indigenous, and aborigines peoples and hiding their injustices through propaganda marketing.
Whilst there are still ongoing ethical issues surrounding topics such as electric vehicle battery mining, there are also considerable growths and improvements in technologies that allow for many of these products to develop without ethical challenges — but ONLY IF THEY ARE GIVEN THE ABILITY TO HAPPEN.
Please share this petition with your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours — the world needs to act accordingly to it’s responsibilities.