Member

One of the problems now is that some people are politicising our necessary needs, and they are pretending that, somehow or other, it is those of us who are pressing green issues who are the politicisers. Not at all: they are the ones who are denying the truth, denying the facts and not demanding what we need in order that the young people who now watch football will live in a world in which they can live happily. If we do not fight climate change as we need to, we will give to the next generation a world which is intolerable. What the people who politicise this issue—as we have just heard—are really doing is saying to their grandchildren, “We don’t care about the world that you will have: we want to be comfortable now. We don’t want to ask anybody to do anything; we’re not even going to remind people to do the things that are good for them and their business.”