Global warming to meet our insatiable demands | Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
We should be grateful to the Green Party for reminding us of the ongoing environmental damage caused by the Javelin Park incinerator (‘Javelin Park’, 23 December 2020) and the failings of the County Council. But the pollution from the incinerator is nothing compared to the still increasing levels of greenhouse gases being pumped out worldwide, to meet our insatiable demand for cheap goods and cheap food, which we suck into the UK from the developing world. The poor and hard-up in the UK can’t be blamed for their choices. Poverty is structural: it is created by right-wing political c...