{"id":113,"date":"2010-10-26T09:18:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T08:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/?p=113"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:49:59","slug":"gulf-between-the-anti-cuts-and-the-green-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Gulf between the anti-cuts and the green movement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our experience is that there is a gulf between the anti-cut\u00a0\u00a0and the green movements. That is why we distributed the Alliance leaflet on the Comprehensive Spending Review at the Trades Council organised cuts protest on Saturday, see the attached, hoping it\u00a0might draw in some of the anti-cuts people towards the Green agenda. We\u00a0know that some greens are in favour of cuts (‘a necessary evil’) and are not at all sympathetic to trade unionists.<\/div>\n
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Hence somebody wrote to one of us saying \u201ca line should be drawn between climate change campaigning and the more traditionally political campaigning \u2026..If I may simplify my view greatly \u2013 we have all been living unsustainable lifestyles, and this will end.\u00a0 The \u2018flyer\u2019 suggests that cutting public spending costs more than continuing it.\u00a0 And yet we have a massive debt and can obviously not afford to continue spending as we have done.\u00a0 We have enjoyed, and this includes the trade union members, a standard of general wealth and luxury unprecedented in human history \u2013 and completely unsustainable, as you know very well.\u00a0 It is inevitable that luxuries of all kinds will disappear, and we will undoubtedly come to see, in the near future, a lot of the public spending that we have become accustomed to, as luxury spending.\u00a0 The argument that is often trotted out \u201cOur members didn\u2019t cause this situation \u2013 its all the bankers\u201d doesn\u2019t; stand up to any intelligent scrutiny.\u00a0 I have never worked in the public sector, and I don\u2019t believe that I caused this economic situation, either.\u00a0 The simple truth is that, as a nation, we have all got used to living beyond our means, and that has to end.\u00a0 While its fair game to argue about the details of some of the changes that will happen, to argue that cut-backs must be resisted across the board, on principle, is dangerously self-deluding. “<\/em><\/div>\n
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While\u00a0we disagree we think it is important to recognise the gaps and to try to build a bridge.<\/div>\n
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Another way, perhaps easier, \u00a0is to push the Million Green Jobs.<\/div>\n
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Would be interested to hear your experiences.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our experience is that there is a gulf between the anti-cut\u00a0\u00a0and the green movements. That is why we distributed the Alliance leaflet on the Comprehensive Spending Review at the Trades Council organised cuts protest on Saturday, see the attached, hoping it\u00a0might draw in some of the anti-cuts people towards the Green agenda. We\u00a0know that some … Continue reading Gulf between the anti-cuts and the green movement<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}