It looks like the current government will not take action on the urgent issues of our time. The most urgent is climate change but it’s not the only one.
Any maybe no future government will take action either. It’s the nature of our political system that governments ignore long-term problems.
There is only one way to force them into action.
We must find a single issue with overwhelmingly popular support. Then we organise a national strike over it.
It must be a specific actionable realistic issue. For example
- A fair sales tax on all products which produce carbon dioxide or methane, in proportion to their global warming effect per kilo. This would include concrete, beef, fertilizer, fossil fuels, steel. The money shall be used to fund a cut in the general VAT rate. So these products rise in price and everything else, every less polluting product, drops in price.
- A boycott on Israel until it grants non-Jews in territories it controls equal civil rights.
- A ban on vulture funds owning housing.
First we need a public figure, or anyone influential or persuasive, to spearhead this action.
Who can do it?
Polls mean nothing, what matters is how people vote on the day (assuming they can be bothered). The Murdoch press engages in propoganda and fake science because it works. Politicians act in the best interests of whoever funds their campaigns. Human nature at it’s finest
If you care, but you’re not willing to try to make a change, then toy are worse than those indifferent people.