Stevenage activist urges residents to listen to climate experts
Residents are being encouraged to join efforts to reduce habits negatively impacting the planet
Climate activists are urging residents in Hertfordshire to get the conversation started around climate protection.
It comes as an initiative was launched by Greenpeace in Stevenage to listen to climate experts and their warnings for the future of our planet, which they say is affecting our everyday life.
Phil Skone, local Greenpeace activist, said: "We're seeing records broken every month, February was recorded as the hottest February on record."
"Everything that we hold dear is totally dependent on a healthy planet..."
"Climate change is a very serious issue and it should really be at the very top of the agenda."
"Everything that we hold dear is totally dependent on a healthy planet, so dealing with the climate crisis has to be the most serious issue to deal with."
With extreme weather events such as record high temperatures or severe flooding, Greenpeace activists are wanting to open people's eyes to issues linked to the climate crisis experienced here in the UK.
Mr Skone said: "It was only a couple of years ago that, in the summer, we saw a record temperature that baffled scientists because it was something they never expected, yet it happened."
"All the predictions that the climate scientists talked about, they are happening much sooner."
"... It very much is a global issue and we all need to start thinking about it and how we can change our lifestyles."
While the United Kingdom may seem relatively immune to continuous extreme events caused by climate change, activists emphasise on the need to change our habits, which they say are directly impacting the rest of the world.
"We in the West, with our high carbon lifestyles, are contributing to their suffering. It very much is a global issue and we all need to start thinking about it and how we can change our lifestyles", added Mr Skone.
Last week, Greenpeace held a protest outside Westminster by turning a Royal Park into a cemetery to represent the lives lost to badly insulated homes, which is costing thousands of lives and impacting the planet.
"...if you start to deal with the climate crisis, like for example with the cost of living, the simplest thing that you can do is to insulate people's homes."
Activists are warning that this is just one area of our lives which is directly linked to the planet, but Mr Skone listed more areas of our everyday lives which are affected by rising climate issues.
He said: "For example, the cost of living or the NHS, you can explain that they are all related to the climate crisis, and if you start to deal with the climate crisis, like for example with the cost of living, the simplest thing that you can do is to insulate people's homes."
"it'll bring down costs for everyone."
"All the other issues you can think of, they will all be related to the climate crisis, so it has to be right at the very top."
Greenpeace will be handing out canvassing guidelines at a meeting in Stevenage Saturday 23rd of March to encourage residents to engage in conversations around climate protection.