Letter To Julian Smith PM: Green New Deal: Responsibility of Leaders.

Here is the letter I wrote last week in 30 June to my MP Julian Smith (MP for Skipton and Ripon - which includes Settle)

I am looking forward to his reply.

Dear Julian

Thank you for being my MP and for all the work that you do. Thank you for coming to our Settle Hustings earlier this year after your busy day in Northern Ireland.

This is an email to remind you - as I am sure that you know - the main job of our MPs and leaders is to ensure our future security - 

both the people in Britain and the people in all of the world. 

It is what we (nearly) all want.

Decisions are being made now about how trillions of pounds are going to be spent worldwide.

Please for the sake of the future of the people in the UK and the people in the world

1. Do much more to prevent climate change.

2. Do much more to protect nature. (including Biodiversity, Soil Erosion, Fish Stocks)

Our present financial system in many cases is destroying these natural resources and nature.

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I URGE YOU TO WORK WITH OTHER COUNTRIES TO DO THIS.

We need to work more with the EU and with other countries, not less.

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I URGE YOU TO THINK AHEAD.

We (and others) have made mistakes by not preparing for a PANDEMIC and not reacting quickly to Coronavirus 19 quickly enough, and not organising effective testing, and not giving local control.

BUT CLIMATE CHANGE and LOSS OF WORLD BIODIVERSITY are MUCH BIGGER ISSUES.

Getting a Green New Deal - a real green new deal - is a way towards doing this.

The Deal that Boris will be talking about today needs to be much "greener".

"Getting a Green New Deal"

What does this mean?

I wrote a mnemonic, given here,

GREEN 
summarized below

 

G - GREEN HOUSE GASES: Get net green house 

     gas production to Zero.

     By 2030 not just 2050

R - RESILIENCE: 

       a. Prepare the system to adapt to environment changes

       b. Show love.

E - EQUALITY: We need to have much 

       more equality. 

       Without intervention, inequality is just 

       getting ludicrously extreme.

E - EMPLOYMENT 

       with Green Jobs -

N - NATURE: 

       a. Protect Nature (Biodiversity)

       b. Protect Natural Resources: Soil; Fish Stocks;
           Mangrove Swamps; Clean Air; Coral Reefs;

           Ice Caps & Peat-bogs (as water reservoirs). 

Please continue to do your best to look after our future. 

We have made big changes related to the Pandemic. 

We can make more to ensure our future.

"It is insane to say we are growing economically if we are destroying the source of growth." (Quote, more or less, from Christiana Figueres)

Yours sincerely

Judith Allinson

Valuing what we have in Settle in our constituency:
bit.ly/Settle-Wildflowers