Climate change needs to be front and centre of party manifestos
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.As voters, we have to scrutinise policies carefully and use our voting power to force parties to address the climate crisis. head of the 29 May elections voters are being bombarded with promises about fixing the economy, the energy crisis and potholes.
As a farmer and red meat producer, climate change threatens the very industry in which I work and to which I have dedicated my life. More importantly, it will have a devastating effect on the consumer, resulting in sharply soaring food prices and increased levels of food insecurity. The time has come for voters to demand that political parties recognise the importance of climate change policies and how they propose to tackle this hot topic. It would be shortsighted to say that this isn’t a “bread-and-butter” issue and that this only warrants consideration by the well-to-do section of society. That it will have no effect on voters who struggle every day to make ends meet.
Last year and 2024 are record years for all the wrong reasons. The Northern Hemisphere smashed heat records during its 2023 summer season, and the world was given a sneak peek of what to expect shortly. The United Nations’ secretary general, António Guterres, coined this post-global warming era Global Boiling. Back home, we also felt the heat. In one of the first heatwaves this summer, November 2023 saw South Africa smashing previous heat records.
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