"Time and time again, our governments (and particularly the UK) are under huge pressure from big businesses to allow pollution and destruction. They are told that if they are not “business-friendly” then the business can go elsewhere.
However, when our EU nations get together and look at the scientific evidence around the damage to health and environment, the combined factors of evidence, citizen interest and group/peer pressure means that they agree to measures and laws that protect all our citizens.
When these agreements are set, big polluters cannot force the race-to-the-bottom because there is internationally common law. When our government slips on standards, our public interest groups can use the common agreements of EU law to force action - as was the case with London air pollution recently (which, incidentally impacts on asthma, respiratory disease, cardiac disease and kills many thousands prematurely).
The author concludes that Brexit is effectively a big step back in the face of real challenges: “The time and political energy required to disentangle us from the EU, and rebuild many of our international relationships from scratch, would be better spent addressing the more pertinent global issues, such as rapid action on climate change, air pollution and the rampant destruction of nature.”
Just another unproven load of bollox
It’s ironic that they can make diesel and petrol engines efficient and fit catalytic converters to reduce "so called emissions "
But they can’t find anything to make coal clean (strange that there’s a lot of clean coal power stations about )
I don’t think China India or any other country that’s becoming major industrial nations gives a monkies toss about what anybody else thinks
gazsa401:
Just another unproven load of bollox
It’s ironic that they can make diesel and petrol engines efficient and fit catalytic converters to reduce "so called emissions "
But they can’t find anything to make coal clean (strange that there’s a lot of clean coal power stations about )
I don’t think China India or any other country that’s becoming major industrial nations gives a monkies toss about what anybody else thinks
Where ? as far as i know there are no large scale coal / carbon capture plants running