IN the annals of climate-change lunacy, a particular place will for ever be reserved for the small West Sussex city of Haywards Heath, 14 miles from Brighton.
A press launch has landed within the TCW inbox from the Plant Primarily based Treaty, which describes itself as a ‘landmark worldwide treaty and first of its type to place meals techniques on the coronary heart of combating the local weather disaster’.
Listed below are some excerpts: ‘Right this moment Haywards Heath City Council [the urban equivalent of a parish council] endorsed the Plant Primarily based Treaty, turning into the primary city in Europe to affix the initiative to deal with emissions from animal farming and attributed [associated?] deforestation, a key driver of the local weather emergency. The proposed Treaty is backed by 17 municipal governments worldwide, together with Boynton Seaside in Florida and Rosario in Argentina . . .
‘The council has taken a science-based strategy to the local weather disaster utilizing analysis from Challenge Drawdown [Mission: to help the world reach ‘drawdown’ – the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline, thereby stopping catastrophic climate change – as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible] to supply a stable scientific basis . . .
‘Having already supported the 2022 Veganuary initiative, endorsing the Plant Primarily based Treaty was the plain subsequent step in an ongoing journey for Haywards Heath City Council . . .
‘Nicola Harris, communications director at Plant Primarily based Treaty, stated, “Haywards Heath’s determination to name for pressing international motion on plant-based options to the local weather disaster demonstrates true management” . . .
‘Local weather campaigners are calling on different cities and cities to comply with Haywards Heath’s lead and assist create a nationwide council-led motion calling for a shift in direction of more healthy, extra sustainable plant-based diets. A petition calling on Glastonbury to endorse the Plant Primarily based Treaty has attracted virtually 5,000 signatures . . .
‘The Plant Primarily based Treaty is modelled on the Fossil Gas Non-Proliferation Treaty and impressed by treaties which have addressed the threats of ozone layer depletion and nuclear weapons. Since its launch in August 2021, the initiative has acquired help from 43,000 particular person endorsers, 5 Nobel laureates, IPCC scientists, greater than 800 NGOs and group teams and 700 companies, together with Ecotricity, Linda McCartney Meals, Oceanic Preservation Society, Environmental Alliance Challenge, VIVA!, BOSH!, Animal Insurrection, and chapters of Greenpeace, Pals of the Earth and Extinction Insurrection.’
Says all of it.
