Veteran environmentalist and green party member Jonathon Porritt has backed the call from Just Stop Oil demanding that the UK Government makes a statement that it will immediately halt all future licensing and consent for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK.
All too predictably, the current UK Government has chosen to ignore that call and has actually been rolling back critical elements in the Government’s own Net Zero Plan.
As commented upon by Jonathon in his blog on 8th November, “The contempt both for science and the interests of young people today literally beggars belief “.
Although Jonathon admits that he has no idea if Just Stop Oil will be able to carry on campaigning in the way it has done so far and whether ” it could just turn out to be another “massively disruptive flash in the pan”, he is confident that the “cause of intergenerational justice is going to become more and more important as the disregard for the lives of young people today, and for all future generations, becomes ever more immoral”.
Jonathon strongly believes that the cause of intergenerational justice will become the single most important test of his own generation.
So how does he see his role now ? “Providing intergenerational support to young people in whatever way might be genuinely useful “, he says , whilst admitting that he has “no idea at the moment what that might look like in practice over the next few months”.
Taking a greater interest in the governance of the Green Party and seek to get elected as the Leader ? Now, there’s a thought…
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