FOE GREEN JOBS SUMMIT
This was a well-attended Zoom meeting, yesterday evening, with nearly 40, at maximum. However, we were all of one mind. It is urgent that we engage with the decision-makers and those who hold the purse strings. We have to tell them what they have to do, I think, by discussing and voting on resolutions to send to the VIP bigwigs at the seven district councils and at WMCA HQ, 16 Summer Lane. Hence:
Both Stuart Richardson and I made two important interventions that the Chair should have picked up on as an opportunity to help the authorities to make the right decisions. Stuart wanted more and urgent help for the least well-off and everyone to move out of gas heating and cooking. I wanted regional Fare-Free Public Transport (FFPT) extended from my age group to the middle-aged and young to end that discrimination and as the carrot and antidote to the Clean Air Zone (CAZ) charges.
In a question, I pointed out the idiocy of spending £120 billion of yet more greenhouse gases to simply allow a small minority to have the choice of either flying through the air in a plane or, flying through the air on land on High Scam 2 between four Big English Cities (and two of their airports), ONLY!
Further, in Dudley borough alone, six railway lines have been destroyed and a seventh is on the way because of Metro trams and VLR trams. This railway destruction and High Scam 2 railway construction must STOP!
FROM KEVIN ANDERSON (Professor of energy and climate change - interested in translating the science of climate change into carbon budgets, policy goals and mitigation options.):
Is there any agreement - from even one person - that the urgency of the situation and the bleak prospects before the end of the century demands more sensible and appropriate action, like the above - immediately?
Tim Weller
