UK’s Best Known Environmentalist Speaks at IVC
February 1, 2010 by wfr.editor
Filed under Climate Change
Tony Juniper - Executive Director, Friends of the Earth (UK) and now parliamentary candidate for Cambridge
“The elections are coming, the elections are coming” might be the headline for the first half of the first year of this new decade. In the second half of the decade we may hear a more panicked cry: “The climate is changing, the climate is changing”. By then it could be too late, or too costly, to do anything about it.
It’s no secret that the climate conference in Copenhagen last December didn’t produce a binding agreement on the emission of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide being the main concern. Since then, the world has seen the PR machines of those who stand to lose out if we clean up the environment working at full tilt to convince us that climate change isn’t real. Mother nature isn’t listening to them. However, some politicians may be. And, that is a major cause for concern.
Strong leadership at all levels of government is needed if effective steps are to be taken to stem our greenhouse gas emissions. What can two small village do? That’s one of the issues to be raised at a special community meeting called by HICCA at 7:30 PM on February 18th at IVC. The guest speaker will be Tony Juniper, best known as the former England director of Friends of the Earth and one of the contributors to the Climate Bill passed by Parliament last year. He isn’t a politician but as a campaigner he has debated, cajoled, convinced or battled most of them in his 25 year career. He is also running to represent Cambridge in Parliament under the Green party banner. That doesn’t make him a neo-politician, in fact, just the opposite. He talks common sense.
