Green party support is surging – but the media prefer to talk about Ukip Zoe Williams A stated intention to vote Green no longer has the ring of merry threat or bravado; it has the ring of sober consideration. This however is made exceedingly difficult by the fact that the Greens are habitually called other. Ideas that were mainly theoretical 25 years ago – solar and wind technology, community energy projects that could take whole towns off-grid – have become demonstrably workable. Half a million UK homes generate around half their energy from the sun. On a particularly windy morning last week, Germany was getting three-quarters of its power from renewables. The Greens have become the party of possibilities, not catastrophes (any party can do catastrophes). What is a wonder is how resolutely the media ignores the Greens. But take a Green seriously and, before you know it, all your conversations have to change. This alternative, however – to ignore them and hope theyll go away – will leave the debate as desiccated and irrelevant as the institutions around which it revolves.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:43:33 +0000
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