Editor

Many thanks for last week’s timely story on the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill.

Our MP Ben Lake is not only sponsoring the bill but, crucially, was at one point the only MP considering tabling the 3 Demands Bill (a direct translation of XR’s 3 demands, and the forerunner of the CEE bill) at the start of the year. After the election, he worked closely with Caroline Lucas, and these discussions culminated in the decision to introduce a new climate bill, created by experts from an alliance between the CEE Bill team, the Big Ask Campaign and Power for the People.

The team say those contributions are “reframing the ask away from a net zero date - as this became a political game - but instead framed around the most stringent end of the Paris Agreement” to “hold government to the science”.

We are being told that this period of the epidemic is a dress rehearsal for climate change. At the same time, the epidemic, like flooding, is a symptom of our terrible relationship with the natural world.

Soil systems are depleted, all contributing, with emissions from fossil fuels, to a rise in temperatures - according to the Climate Change Committee - of two to four degrees by 2050.

Could members of this constituency, with friends and family in other constituencies, back the Bill by asking them to urge their MP to support it? 574 MPs have still not signed it. Research says it took just 150 emails on average to persuade an MP to vote for the 2008 Climate Change Act, so we just have to keep trying!

Susanna Kenyon Cwm Rheidol

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