‘Adapting to the Climate Crisis Needs to be Done in Ways that Tackle Inequality at the Same Time’

Soaring temperatures are pushing us towards environmental crises that the Government is doing little to prepare for – while Nigel Farage weaponises net zero. We need to quickly become resilient to extreme climate, writes Green Party Co-Leader Adrian Ramsay MP

In July 2022, the UK experienced its first recorded temperature above 40°C and, as a recent Met Office report on the state of the climate put it, record-breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in this country during the past decade.

For the majority of us, the effects of this change still feel relatively benign. Sunnier days and longer, drier summers – what’s not to like? And, with the Government mostly silent about what we need to do to adapt to the ever-shifting new ‘normal’, most of us can be forgiven for thinking that everything is under control.

But nothing could be further from the truth.