Why Green
Short Term Politics
The way the world works today, we make very short term decisions. Our large companies and business are tied to the quarterly profit margins as everything they do is closely studied by the traders on the stock market. Our smaller business are more capable of long term planning but are more restricted by the funds available to them to make the large changes required for long term returns on these choices. And our governments are bound by the perpetual thought of re-election.
Governments of the world should be thinking about the next 25 years with sensible plans. But any policy that doesn't benefit the electorate immediately loses a government popularity, and there is the chance they might not get elected again. Nobody wants to be the opposition. You don't make a choice that will lose you the next election, even if it will benefit the country in the next 5 to 10 years. Its summed up well by the saying "No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in." Its at least true of our recent governments.
For democracy to work, the public need to think about the future of their country as well as their family income now. They have to think about the world they want to live in later in their lives.
The Green Party is the only party that exists in almost every western society, and has a clear defined plan for humanity to do well in the long term.
Long Term Policies
With more and more people on the planet, and more and more countries growing economies the future holds a pressure on resources and an ever growing energy question. With the vast levels of consumption of resources by the west and in particular the USA, and other countries like India and China trying to emulate us, all competing for food, energy and minerals resources on the open global market, we need our own plan for the future in Britain.
We live a cheap and easy life now, at the cost of an expensive and more difficult one in the years ahead. The decisions we make now will pay us back in the future, if we take them. Should that be such a hard thing to persuade people to accept.
We only produce 60% of our food needs in this country, by volume. If oil were to get expensive, we could only produce around 10% of the countries food needs in Britain, but worse still, the effect would be global.
With climate change visibly beginning to take its course, we can begin to see all the increased costs of repairing things damaged by floods, and the health costs caused by pollution and hot summers.
We need to stop relying on Russian gas pipelines for our electrical grid and home heating, and oil from the Middle East for our transport and as a feedstock for so many of our industries and our agriculture.
We need to have a plan for the future. We need to build ourselves a sustainable country. The benefits are endless, we just need time to see them.
We are the generation that makes the decision.
Look at our pages on Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Green Living to see more about why you should choose green.