>The energy charter treaty (ECT) is a system of secret courts that enables companies to sue governments over policies that would cut their future profits.
Sorry, what? Yes, please withdraw from this, immediately.
France, Germany, Spain have already said they will leave and with the UK continuing to miss targets for climate action I don’t see how staying in can be considered remotely tenable.
A common sense middle ground would be to publish a real and tangible solution to working our way to a more renewable energy model. Rather than kicking the can down the road, publishing a meaningful plan could put a lot of people at ease.
A treaty like the one above is out dated and should be evaluated. No one in sane mind would claim to stop fossil fuels like oil over night (*unless we get the army ready to intervene in the mass famine / society collapse that would follow.*) but I don’t get why it’s so hard to just simple publish a meaningful pathway into green energy that is realistic and tangible.
Considering what’s at stake here (i.e. the continued survival of human civilisation), the attempt by fossil fuel companies to undermine climate change action is the most monstrous evil in history. Of course we should leave the ECT.
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>The energy charter treaty (ECT) is a system of secret courts that enables companies to sue governments over policies that would cut their future profits.
Sorry, what? Yes, please withdraw from this, immediately.
France, Germany, Spain have already said they will leave and with the UK continuing to miss targets for climate action I don’t see how staying in can be considered remotely tenable.
A common sense middle ground would be to publish a real and tangible solution to working our way to a more renewable energy model. Rather than kicking the can down the road, publishing a meaningful plan could put a lot of people at ease.
A treaty like the one above is out dated and should be evaluated. No one in sane mind would claim to stop fossil fuels like oil over night (*unless we get the army ready to intervene in the mass famine / society collapse that would follow.*) but I don’t get why it’s so hard to just simple publish a meaningful pathway into green energy that is realistic and tangible.
Considering what’s at stake here (i.e. the continued survival of human civilisation), the attempt by fossil fuel companies to undermine climate change action is the most monstrous evil in history. Of course we should leave the ECT.