Why focus on supporting the Green Party?

15 August 2022

 

J.Cox 

With and without the bonus of hindsight the Green Party are taking great satisfaction in knowing that the decades of constructive policy making built around our precious environment and social justice was and will even more so be the only way to protect humanity.

The war in Ukraine has brought bad fortune to the economic prospects in the interim and Europe still has to buy Russian gas and oil. The UK has also been caught on the hop as had we invested to the max in renewables we would not have had to purchase any Russian gas and oil. Russian ships are now banned from entering the UK but we were slow to enforce this situation with Russian diesel still being offloaded back in April.

With the inclusion of coal, the UK was buying around £4.5bn of energy commodities per annum from Russia, up until this year. The combined renewable sector is worth over £42bn so readers can see it would have been far easier to rain in another £5bn or so from renewables and cut ties with a country that is proud to partner-up with Iran.

Sadly India has taken advantage of cheap oil from Russia and imports have surged with the country buying around 1m barrels a day. The Indian military still rely on Russian weapons manufacturers to equip their military as are other countries in Asia and E.Asia continent. This situation arose due to the Indian Pakistan conflict in the 1970s when the West backed Pakistan, even though there was a military dictatorship there.

There is a fully functioning Green Party in India, but like in the UK the electoral system favours two traditional political parties. The Indian Greens like most Green Parties; Green Party of England and Wales, Asia Pacific Green Federation, the European Greens and the Federation of Green Parties of Africa are all affiliated to the Global Greens(GGs)which publish a charter of principles which unite Greens around the world. Presently the GGs are campaigning for the World to divest from oil.

For the last two years India has suffered drought and this year’s rice harvest is well below expectations. Now relentless rain in many regions has damaged the tomato crop before it could be salvaged. As in Australia, India is seeing the Green Party grow as more people sign up to the idea of global sustainability.

Around Southampton we have not been left unscathed by the latest heat wave. A drought has been declared and there have been a succession of fires in nature reserves and on public land causing the death of species and protected plant life.

If the world cannot fight climate change then there must be more provision to adapt and protect areas of natural diversity in the hope that in the future the land and species can be salvaged.

Supporting your local Green Party will go a step further in avoiding further ecological damage.

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9523/CBP-9523.pdf

 

 

 

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