{"id":46630,"date":"2019-11-05T07:36:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=46630"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:36:38","slug":"this-election-needs-to-be-about-the-climate-because-there-is-no-bigger-issue-than-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/11\/05\/this-election-needs-to-be-about-the-climate-because-there-is-no-bigger-issue-than-it\/","title":{"rendered":"This election needs to be about the climate &#8211; because there is no bigger issue than it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/nov\/04\/labour-lib-dems-and-snp-call-for-tv-election-debate-on-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has reported this morning<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Labour, the Scottish National party and the Liberal Democrats have backed calls for a televised climate debate between party leaders ahead of the election, warning that time is running out to tackle the\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-change\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">global heating\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-change\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">emergency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>School strikers, students and pensioners\u2019 groups launched a campaign at the weekend to try to force political leaders to discuss the climate crisis live on television ahead of the December poll.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am pleased to note that they add:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Monday, Jeremy Corbyn supported the proposal, saying the upcoming election was the \u201clast chance to radically change course, or face the threat of a hostile and dying planet\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Corbyn is right.<\/p>\n<p>This is, by far, the biggest issue in this election. It's much bigger than Brexit, although I'd suggest that is just a proxy for it. Those who are pro-Brexit are by and large older, and so indifferent or in denial of climate change, or are opposed to regulation, which tackling climate change will require.<\/p>\n<p>So, bring it on, I say. Let's have the Green New Deal debate. We need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has reported this morning that: Labour, the Scottish National party and the Liberal Democrats have backed calls for a televised climate debate between<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/11\/05\/this-election-needs-to-be-about-the-climate-because-there-is-no-bigger-issue-than-it\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}