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We must come together to prevent climate calamity

Ahead of a planned ‘autumn of action,’ JEREMY CORBYN says that communities from every corner of the country are coming together in a demand for the system change needed if the future of our precious planet is to be defended

LAST week, Britain recorded its hottest temperature on record. The heatwave exposed the fragility of our crumbling and ill-prepared infrastructure and showed that the urgent need to act is no longer a choice, it is a necessity. 

The cost-of-living scandal and existential threat caused by the climate crisis have opened the eyes of many. 

Millions are struggling to pay their bills and being forced into debt, as well as feeling the uncomfortable and unsustainable impacts of rising temperatures here and around the world.
 
Unless we act quickly, these levels of extreme heat will soon cease to be unprecedented. They will become common, a devastating norm that will obliterate farming, agriculture and livelihoods, most severely in the global South — countries who contribute least to the world’s CO2 emissions.
 
No longer can we distinguish between a set of individual crises — they are one and the same, interlocked, without action, destined to destroy our society, communities and planet.
 
The whole system, which creates billionaires and starves hundreds of millions, is the crisis. It can’t be resolved, it must be overcome and transformed.
 
This urgent call for action has led to the coming together of We All Want To Just Stop Oil, a coalition of activists from across the environmental and progressive labour movements, including the Peace & Justice Project and Fuel Poverty Action. 

Together with communities from every corner of the country, we are united in our demand for system change, including no new oil and real investment in sustainable and renewable energy.
 
We’re also demanding that the government properly tax fossil fuel companies, the super-rich and big business to force them to pay their fair share. 

We demand cheap, green public transport so people are less reliant on their cars. And the biggest no-brainer: we demand the insulation of all our homes — starting with those of the poorest — to reduce energy bills and tackle the climate crisis while creating hundreds of thousands of good, unionised jobs.
 
Movements are the motor of change in history. When we come together, we can transform the world. And we must. Because those in power — the fossil fuel giants, the billionaires and the governments they own — are picking our pockets and stealing our future.
 
This will be the start of an autumn of action and the building of coalitions across the country, where communities, trade unions and organisations will meet, organise and build a powerful resistance to the system, polluters and the Establishment who protect it.
 
Join us, the time for action is now.

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