As we emerge from lock down, the world has to create new jobs in the
green industries of the future, not bail out big-oil and aviation whose emissions are putting our very existence on this planet in peril.
Temperatures this month have been as high as an astonishing 38C in the Siberian Arctic. [See: "
Arctic Circle sees 'highest-ever' recorded temperatures"]
It's urgent that the UK government fully backs plans by local councils such as Ealing's to go carbon neutral ASAP and matches those efforts with a national plan.
The science is clear. Failure to act would mean that we would stumble out of the Covid crisis only to face a looming and far worse climate catastrophe.
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