'If the easiest way to keep bills down in the short-term is to keep the oil and gas flowing - well, we know what happens.'
LBC's presenter said while the government is told about the grim science of the climate crisis, it also needs to address the cost of living crisis.
"The big one is climate change. If mankind can't slow down the heating of the planet, all our futures, and our children's, are hammered. Back at the international climate summit in Glasgow in 2021, Britain was taking a proud lead. "These were "total nonsense" Lord Deben said today; "How can we ask countries in Africa not to develop oil? How can we ask other nations not to expand fossil fuel production if we start doing it ourselves?"
"Trouble is, there's another crisis, even closer to hand - the cost of living crisis, the can't pay our bills crisis. And if the easiest way to keep bills down in the short-term is to keep the oil and gas flowing, delay the switch to electric cars and the new heat pumps - what some on the right call the "green crap" - well, we know what happens."Tory MPs want the carbon tax, which ends up on household bills, to be scrapped. Let's save the planet but not quite yet.
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