Climate change: the Brexit threat | Letters

The UK's green watchdog will be powerless to halt global warming when we leave the European UnionThere is a tacky interface between industry and government when it comes to public health or the environment, and it is abundantly clear that Brexit is fatally shifting the balance towards deregulation ("Green watchdog will lack bite after Brexit", News).It is no coincidence that the most prominent Brexiters are also climate change deniers because they perceive climate change legislation as a major threat to industrial profit. This is the reason that the Department of Energy and Climate Change was dissolved, the reason that climate change has been omitted from the remit of the government's new green watchdog, and the reason that Brexiters fulminate against the Climate Change Act. Continue reading...