Blog: Transport Workers' Role In Fight Against Climate Change
Submitted by Green Officer on 28 October, 2014 - 15:02At our 2014 AGM, the RMT London Transport Regional Council voted to create the position of “Green Officer”. Transport workers have a special role in the fight against climate change because a massive expansion of affordable public transport, under real social ownership, is a vital reform that could drastically reduce carbon emissions. Our fight for jobs is, in an immediate sense, a fight for socially and environmentally-sustainable work.
Serious scientific opinion is now unequivocal in its view that changes to the earth's climate caused by human activity will have catastrophic