Anti-Climate Policies Have Deadly Consequences

Turn down the noise and follow the facts

The growing backlash against ‘green’ policies is gathering momentum across the world. Anything designed to boost the health of humans and all living species is being weaponised as ‘woke’ or ‘unrealistic’ or ‘too expensive’.

Why? Because the fossil fuels lobby has tightened its claws around governments and opposition parties pretty much everywhere. They have unlimited resources, and money talks.

As the majority of people aren’t keen on facing up to the terrifying facts that simple measurements put before us (CO2 levels, temperature hikes, sea levels, ice melts, wildlife numbers etc, etc) it is easy for puppet politicians to come out with crazy buzzphrases that hit home.

So Trump can call the green movement “the biggest scam of all time” in the US, and Farage’s Reform UK party - currently miles ahead in the polls - can call it “Net Stupid Zero” and propose policies that will strip away environmental and health protections.

But these policies have deadly consequences. Whatever your political beliefs, whatever your views on issues such as immigration and patriotism, the devastating environmental impacts of right-wing populist programmes must be tackled head on - for all our sakes.

It’s a fact: Programmes that slow or reverse decarbonisation and clean-air rules translate into more premature deaths, more displacement, and accelerating ecological collapse.

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A Contract To Kill

Let’s look in more detail, starting in the UK, where the rise of Reform cannot be ignored. At the moment, Nigel Farage is heading for 10 Downing Street.

Reform UK’s “Contract” is uncompromising: “Scrap Net Zero,” ban ULEZ/Clean Air Zones, end “bans on petrol and diesel cars,” and fast-track new oil and gas, with fracking trials.

The document - a blueprint for a Reform UK government - also promises to scrap climate-related farming subsidies and opposes using productive land for rewilding or solar farms.

But what happens when you actually remove those protections?