In all the pre-election hoo-hah, have you heard any of the top politicos breathe a word about the environment? Or the climate?
To address such elephant-sized blind spots, Greenpeace offers these 6 discussion topics for anyone canvassing your vote:
Warm homes
- Fix the UK’s draughty homes.
- Help poorer households to pay costly energy bills.
Wind power
- Power the UK with affordable home-grown renewable energy.
Wheels
- Roll-out cheaper and better buses and trains for healthier air.
Wildlife
- Stop sewage and chemicals polluting our rivers and seas.
- Prevent overfishing and industrial farming.
- Rewild our countryside.
Workers
- Make the economy work for everyone.
- Clean up the banks.
- Support workers into jobs in the industries of the future.
World
- Protect our oceans and cut plastic.
- Protect democracy and human rights.
- Stop new drilling for oil and gas and tax big oil companies more to support people facing the worst climate impacts.
So… what’s going to get your vote? A promise of action on any of the above? Or some mouse-sized distraction, like the colour of the candidate’s shirt?