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| Mon, 27th Jul 2020 16:36:00 |
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These UK parents created a ‘wind farm’ at 10 Downing Street |
On Sunday, parents involved in Mothers Rise Up and Parents for Future UK gathered outside 10 Downing Street, the British prime minister’s residence (pictured above). They held wind turbines to symbolize the low-carbon pandemic recovery they want.
Parents for green energy
More than 100 high-profile parents, from actor Julie Walters to former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, also sent an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for the COVID-19 response to “create jobs for our children today and help ensure a safe climate tomorrow.”
The letter asks Johnson not to “build our way out of one disaster by supercharging the next.” The letter states:
Millions more decent jobs could be rapidly created across the UK through a nationwide program of insulating homes, installing electric vehicle charging points, re-establishing woodlands, and boosting the rollout of renewable energies.
As economists, business leaders, scientists, actors, faith and belief leaders, charity leaders, trade unionists and educators and above all as parents, we are committed to playing our part. But we need your leadership to spearhead the changes that are needed. We need a commitment that public money will not be used to bail out high carbon industries, but invested in building a thriving, fair and low carbon economy that will put the UK at the forefront of a post COVID-19 recovery.
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