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Article: Less oil, but at a price; Richard Baines stresses the importance of the green agenda for whoever forms the next government.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Byline: Richard Baines
Whatever is its political complexion, the next government will be forced to deal with the UK's soaring debt burden. What it shouldn't do, however, is to drop green initiatives in the interests of saving money when the future of the planet is at stake.
It took 15 years from the 1992 Rio world summit on sustainable development to just before the credit crunch for governments and the general public to take the dangers of environmental change seriously.
Just because the world's cash flow has evaporated does not mean that those ...