The Grumpy Vegan found himself in agreement with Green campaigner and author, Jonathan Porritt, on the Labour government’s decision on a third runway for London’s Heathrow airport.
Yesterday’s decision on the third runway at Heathrow marks a critical turning point in UK politics: the point at which the Labour Party turned its back on the future. What makes politics so fascinating today is its bipolarity. We can’t help but live simultaneously in two worlds: one based on abundant fossil fuels, the pursuit of economic growth at almost all costs, rampant consumerism and grotesque inequality; and one based on elegant, very low-carbon, hyper-efficient lifestyles, in a fairer, less frenetic, genuinely sustainable world. The longer we hang on to the first world, the harder it gets to make the transition to the second – and if we can’t make that transition, we’re stuffed. Persisting with the first world means the death of everything we hold dear. Horribly soon.
