Stuart Graham supporting the NEC motion ‘The Climate Emergency – Why it Matters to UNISON’
Stuart made no apology for using his time at the rostrum to speak about Palestine, as carbon emissions are one lens through which the genocide is being viewed. He made no apology for using his time at the rostrum to speak about Palestine, as carbon emissions are one lens through which the genocide is being viewed. made no apology for using his time at the rostrum to speak about Palestine, as carbon emissions are one lens through which the genocide is being viewed.
In January, one study estimated the climate cost of the first 60 days of Israel’s military assault on Gaza as the equivalent of burning at least 150,000 tonnes of coal. Whereas the CO2 emissions attributable to Palestinian resistance was approximately 300 tonnes of coal. While carbon emissions associated with war aren’t the most important reason that the global community should be pushing for a ceasefire, they are a reminder that combined with our domestic and commercial CO2 emissions, that armed conflict brings us closer to climate breakdown/climate catastrophe.