George Monbiot accuses British Government of recklessness

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here you would expect to see caution and circumspection, instead there is a rush to action. Where you would expect to see determination and resolve, there is only vacillation and delay.

The contrast between the government’s handling of the Syrian crisis and its handling of the climate change crisis could not be greater. It responds to these issues with an equal and opposite recklessness.

“Why is the government so quick to bomb, yet so slow to act on climate change?”

 

“We have to hit these terrorists in their heartlands right now,” David Cameron told parliament last week. While it is hard to contest the principle of fighting Isis, to do so without a clear strategic purpose and intelligible objectives is lunacy.

Read George Monbiot’s latest column - “Churchill Syndrome.”

Failure to respond to climate change is "intergenerational recklessness'

The Government’s treatment of climate change in Thursday’s Intergenerational Report should come under close scrutiny.

If you don’t have a plan for climate change, you don’t have a plan for the future. A sensible plan will lay out how we can help to avoid 2°C warming and include a decarbonisation pathway to phase down our greenhouse gas emissions to zero by mid-century.

CEO of the Climate Institute, John Connor, has written on Reneweconomy about our intergenerational failures; a failure to act on climate change and so act responsibly for the following generations/

His story: “Failure to act on climate is intergenerational recklessness” discussed the increasingly mainstream calls that are echoing around the world, although Australia’s political and business leaders have been slow to act.