Should MN support Mothers Rise Up's call for urgent climate action? Tell MNHQ what you think

[NiamhMumsnet]

Hello all.

Mothers Rise Up have been in touch asking if we would like to sign their open letter calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to take urgent climate action.

The letter will highlight the government's continued investment in oil and gas projects around the globe and its plans to build yet more polluting roads and runways. It will also call for a massive expansion in clean energy and green transport across the UK.

A similar letter was pulled together last year - it was featured in the Guardian and helped draw attention to their call for climate action and to engage parents across the UK.

The letter will be published ahead of a Mother's Day march to Downing Street - you can find more details about this march on their website.

We see a lot of threads on Mumsnet discussing the climate crisis - so do please let us know what you think.

Thanks
MNHQ

Yes, absolutely.

To me climate change transcends every other issue that we currently face. There is no point in arguing about anything else if we don't have a planet left to live on!

Yes, this absolutely.

Yes. There is nothing more important than this, get it signed please!

Yes, it is the single most important issue at the moment.

Not without seeing what the letter actually says - their website isn’t that clear about specific demands and I don’t think a general “climate change is bad” letter is particularly effective.

yes. Please.

Yes!

Yes

Yes of course you should.
Climate change is not political it's just a scientific fact.

*To me climate change transcends every other issue that we currently face. There is no point in arguing about anything else if we don't have a planet left to live on!
*
This ^^

Yes

Unequivocally yes. Yes PLEASE.

YES YES YES

Yes. Their website isn't particularly specific but it's such an important issue.

No

It’s easy to sign a letter. Would probably mean more if everyone who asked you to sign it used electric cars, didn’t use tumble dryers and dishwashers, air con etc.

Yes!!

@Twooter so no-one can support political action on the climate crisis unless they first meet your requirements?

*Had we put as much effort into preventing environmental catastrophe as we’ve spent on making excuses for inaction, we would have solved it by now. Everywhere I look, I see people engaged in furious attempts to fend off the moral challenge it presents.

The commonest current excuse is this: “I bet those protesters have phones/go on holiday/wear leather shoes.” In other words, we won’t listen to anyone who is not living naked in a barrel, subsisting only on murky water. Of course, if you are living naked in a barrel we will dismiss you too, because you’re a hippie weirdo. Every messenger, and every message they bear, is disqualified on the grounds of either impurity or purity.*

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/15/rebellion-prevent-ecological-apocalypse-civil-disobedience

Sure, personal action is important too, but if you actually care about climate change, it makes no sense to use it as a cynical stick on threads like this to attack the people taking political action.

Well said @Porpoises

No.

Yes, please do support it.

Go for it.

Can't help wondering if people are really ok with giving up their cars and flights when push comes to shove.

Absolutely!

Yes

Yes. The issue of climate change eclipses and transcends EVERYTHING. Anyone who is a parent and wants a future for their children should be very concerned.