'I GREW up at a time when most politicians didn’t have much to say about the environment'.
Scientists were already ringing the alarm bells, but the fossil fuel industry was pumping out propaganda to prevent action. It fell to a few determined campaigners to put the issue on the political agenda … and my mum was one of them.
It would be easy to pick out the mistakes of the past and point out years of Green demands for change on roadbuilding, on energy efficient homes, on agriculture and so on, and just say “we told you so”. But that would achieve nothing. As an opposition party we won some limited progress, and we exposed how some former ministers had squandered years with self-congratulation about setting targets while they also demanded more roadbuilding, more aviation and more fossil fuel extraction.
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