On this day, 13 years ago (June 24, 2009) the Scottish Parliament passes insufficient #climate legislation; claims ‘leadership’ anyway. Excellent guest post by
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The Scottish parliament unanimously passed the Climate Change (Scotland) Act. This enabled the devolved Scottish government, led by the Scottish National Party’s minority administration, to look *slightly* more progressive than the UK New Labour government at Westminster.
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has written extensively in the academic journal about the alliances that were formed in Scotland to shape the Act during a period of increased activist and media attention to climate change (paywall).
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10
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Despite the talk of global leadership, noted ‘when you look at Scotland’s consumption emissions, that is its total carbon footprint over the last 20 years, you will see that there has been no meaningful reduction over that 20 yr period’.
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if we want action, we must see legislation as the BEGINNING of what citizens do, not the end. Without monitory democracy - unzombified and unzombifiable radical persistent groups, we are toast.
So, um, we are toast.
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