There’s nothing bourgeois about protecting our planet. If fracking returns like Smith wants it won’t take place in Westminster it’ll take place in rural working class areas who will suffer from earthquakes and contaminated water.
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https://twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1572967394045493251
The rich with their safehouses in New Zealand won’t suffer as water levels rise; it'll be ordinary GMB members.
Instead of supporting multinational fossil corporations Smith should back a #greennewdeal securing good, high paying futureproof jobs for our members.
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Instead of supporting multinational fossil corporations Smith should back a #greennewdeal securing good, high paying futureproof jobs for our members.
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There is a plan to retrain and reskill fossil energy workers and secure a just transition. There is no future in fossil energy and there are no jobs on a dead planet.
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The future is renewables, worldwide employment in the renewable energy sector reached 12.7 million last year, a jump of 700,000 new jobs in just 12 months.
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If @GMB_union is not onboard these jobs will go to non-unionised workers and it will be working class people that suffer.
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