Saturday, 11 July 2020

You believe in Packham; believe also in me!!


Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 08:51
Subject: Re: ALWAYS OPPOSE HS2/METRO TRAM EXTENSIONS
To: Tim Weller <timweller1@gmail.com>

Such a good summary! Jonathon Porritt.
On 9 Jul 2020, at 08:20, Tim Weller <timweller1@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear friends - my own 10 points, following Packham's ten!
  1. Please continue to support Chris Packham and fund him over our opposition to £106 billion HS2.
  2. Please continue to be on my side over misspending £15 billion on Metro tram extensions in W Midlands.
  3. Both are over-indulgent, vanity projects.
  4. Both are grossly extravagant, flash, puff out your chest, waste.
  5. Both break our UK laws and international obligations over postponing climate catastrophe.
  6. Metro is the second most expensive transport mode to construct after HS2, per Km.
  7. Metro is even more expensive per Km than almost all Maglev train projects in China, S Korea and Japan.
  8. The more we spend, the more deadly greenhouse gases are emitted.
  9. Both Metro and HS2, like Brexit, are the wrong issues and make the right issues worse.
  10. The right issues are addressing resource depletion and the ecological and climate emergencies.

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