{"id":8637,"date":"2020-03-04T16:47:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2020-03-04T16:50:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:50:55","slug":"heathrow-decision-stop-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8637","title":{"rendered":"Could the Heathrow decision stop a lot more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1024px-CAR_FREE_HIGHWAY_ON_SUNDAY_FILLED_WITH_BIKERS_IN_TOKYO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1024px-CAR_FREE_HIGHWAY_ON_SUNDAY_FILLED_WITH_BIKERS_IN_TOKYO-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"1024px-CAR_FREE_HIGHWAY_ON_SUNDAY_FILLED_WITH_BIKERS_IN_TOKYO\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1024px-CAR_FREE_HIGHWAY_ON_SUNDAY_FILLED_WITH_BIKERS_IN_TOKYO-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1024px-CAR_FREE_HIGHWAY_ON_SUNDAY_FILLED_WITH_BIKERS_IN_TOKYO.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Could the Heathrow decision stop a lot more?\u00a0 There is an article in today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/04\/government-fossil-fuel-power-projects-heathrow-judgment\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a> by George Monbiot suggesting the legal decision taken last week could be far more significant than we first thought.\u00a0 The decision last week was presaged on the fact that the go ahead for a third runway took no account of the Paris climate change agreement now signed into law as a UK commitment.\u00a0 The problem for government is nothing else does either.\u00a0 Governments of all parties have cynically talked about 2050 in the hope that the problem is someone else&#8217;s.\u00a0 This politically and environmentally will no longer do.<\/p>\n<p>The legal decision now gives campaigners the tools to stop all sorts of other stuff from going ahead.\u00a0 In campaigners sights are new road building projects, HS2 and new fossil fuel projects.\u00a0 George Monbiot is part of a group aiming for the last one.\u00a0\u00a0 But you could think of myriad other targets.\u00a0 The subject of a post two weeks ago.\u00a0 New schools being built without any taking any account of climate change&#8230;\u00a0 Hinkley C massive piles of concrete and the uranium mining as we argued in our book is both energy intensive and getting more so.\u00a0 How about your councils transport policy?<\/p>\n<p>Could the Heathrow decision stop a lot more? The only limit is money and organisations to take this stuff on.\u00a0 You can contribute money via a link from that above.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could the Heathrow decision stop a lot more?\u00a0 There is an article in today&#8217;s Guardian by George Monbiot suggesting the legal decision taken last week could be far more significant than we first thought.\u00a0 The decision last week was presaged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,1],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-practical-low-carbon-living","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Could the Heathrow decision stop a lot more? 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