Line 5, at end add ‘but respectfully request that your Government
recognise that its programme fails to address either the worsening
climate crisis or that austerity is failing; call on your Government to
heed warnings that urgent and radical cuts in emissions are needed to
prevent global temperature rises of 4℃ or more by the end of the
century; urge your Government to recognise that, to fulfil its own
commitment to keep warming below 2 degrees, around 80 per cent of known
fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground; further call on your
Government to end austerity and instead reduce the deficit through an
economic programme that prioritises investment in jobs, especially in
labour-intensive green sectors and that pursues a goal of 100 per cent
renewable energy by 2050, with policies for rapid deployment of
renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies; and further call on
your Government to lift the council borrowing cap to promote council
house building, to tackle the cost of public transport starting with
bringing the railways back into public ownership, to end cuts to welfare
and take other steps to build a resilient and stable economy.
Caroline Lucas, Brighton and Hove
Caroline Lucas, Brighton and Hove
