'...increasing economic inequalities and may place further burdens on poor people who already have to choose between eating well and staying warm' Photo: Photo: Images_of_Money / flickr CC.
Sustainability - Climate change policies: who really pays?
Rachel Howell writes about a triple injustice for low-income households
At Yearly Meeting Gathering in Canterbury in 2011 Friends committed to become ‘a low-carbon, sustainable community’. I was strongly moved, at the time, to minister that we also need to focus on collecting information to help us discern what climate change-related policies to advocate and support. Climate change policies, I pointed out, can be more or less fair, depending on their impacts. The policies the government chooses will depend, in part, on what ideas are available and well-supported when they are willing to listen. So, we need to be proactive, otherwise policies to tackle climate change may have negative impacts on other things we care about, like economic justice.
