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Wales Online
National
Will Hayward

Tory leadership candidates turn their back on climate change as the world burns

Climate change is here. Just walking outside today shows that everything scientists have been saying since the late 1980s is true.

Humankinds addiction to burning fossil fuels is causing the planet to heat. This is well on the way to causing a catastrophe beyond anything humanity has ever seen. You can read about nine ways global heating is going to make life in Wales worse here.

The good news is we know exactly what we need to do to fix it. The bad news is that the people running to lead the government of our four nations don't seem to give a damn. The candidates currently jockeying for the leadership of the Conservative Party, and therefore the role of PM, have been at best apathetic to the tackling the issue, or at worst have campaigned on the back of rolling back measures to tackle the problem.

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