Nuclear Power

  • Oppose Nuclear Energy. People Before Profit oppose any measures that seek to promote nuclear energy as a solution to climate change. Some environmentalists have become so demoralised by the failure of capitalism to counter climate change that they have reluctantly accepted nuclear energy as a solution. We reject these arguments. Nuclear energy remains linked to the production of nuclear weapons, its growth would not be carbon neutral and the risks it poses remain unacceptable with no solution to the long term problem of the removal and storage of nuclear waste. The proposed growth of this industry to reduce carbon emissions would have to be on a massive scale and with huge costs both financial and environmental. Such resources should be used to build and invest in other renewable energies.

 

Protecting Our Environment and the Natural World

  • A New Environmental Protection Agency. We want an EPA with a clear remit to protect the natural environment and people’s rights to clean water, air and a safe built environment for both this and future generations. We will ensure that this agency is independent of commercial interests and that it is democratically accountable.
  • Right to Democratic Access. We would establish a clear legal right of responsible access to the physical heritage of the country; its mountains, countryside, lakes, rivers and seashore, with the right to roam in remote and highland areas.
  • Support for Local Environmental Campaigns People Before Profit recognises the important role played by grassroots local campaigns to defend local environments. We actively support such campaigns, seek to move them in a progressive direction and see them as both valid in themselves and a stepping stone in the development of people power and wider ecological consciousness.