Put money into health, climate, not weapons
WE’RE living in strange times. Times when the world has changed in a way we couldn’t have imagined 16 months ago due to Covid.
But also times when the world is going to change massively more due to the climate crisis.
We are all aware of the suffering caused by wars, climate change and Covid – and that all three tend to disproportionatly hurt the same people: the poor and disposessed.
The worsening climate drives wars. Wars displace people and cause massive destruction, leading to more carbon emissions and an intensification of the climate crisis, as well as appalling suffering.
The coronavirus impacts more heavily on people with fewer resources and poorer health.
Why on earth, given these obvious links, is our government pouring money into the military while cutting funding to the Global South?
Why is this money not being put into health systems, including the NHS, and helping the world here and abroad to rebuild in ways which reduce climate change instead of fuelling it?
We need to start prioritising the kind of growth which makes the world safer for people.
We need to take responsibilty for the damage which Britain has caused and continues to cause in our colonialist exploitation of oil, resources and people. Now is the time for change.
Zina Zelter is, as I have heard, “that’s just Boris”, then would we accept that if a teacher said that about a child who had lied about one of our children?
Is there anyone reading this who can help my understanding?