Climate action is something the vast majority of Britons agree on. But even the Greens are blocking the vital infrastructure we need to electrify Britain Katie White is the Labour MP for Leeds North West and minister for climate in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Strip away the politics, and the climate crisis debate isn’t complicated. We’re changing the planet in ways that are “damaging and dangerous”, and every country will be affected. “No one can opt out.” Those quotes might sound as if they came from a leftwing Scandinavian leader, but they are, in fact, from Margaret Thatcher. Speaking to the UN general assembly in 1989, Britain’s then prime minister tore into world leaders and warned that there was “no good squabbling over who is responsible or who should pay”. Not the obvious place for a Labour climate minister to start, but it matters. From Thatcher to New Labour’s 2008 Climate Change Act and Theresa May’s net zero target, Britain has benefited on this issue from something usually in short supply: political consensus. There has been a shared belief that the climate crisis is real and that we have a responsibility to play our proper, humble role in tackling
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The author has become acutely aware of how the climate crisis is affecting women â and, in her new book, she argues that itâs time for mainstream western feminists to join the dots Natasha Walter is halfway through explaining how she…
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The author has become acutely aware of how the climate crisis is affecting women â and, in her new book, she argues that itâs time for mainstream western feminists to join the dots Natasha Walter is halfway through…
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