End of the World, End of the Month - One Fight

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https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5996-end-of-the-world-end-of-the-month-one-fight.html

The movement on living standards can and must be linked to demands for energy-saving measures such as home insulation. The words 'climate justice is social justice' can and must become actions.

Gas, oil and coal prices started rising on world markets last year as economies recovered from the pandemic. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed them further and caused a global food price shock.

“End of the world, end of the month, same fight!” Jubilee Climate and other campaign groups are now mobilising around that principle.

If we don’t confront the crisis of energy bills with a ‘same fight!’ approach, then the populist right will step in, attacking the government’s ‘net zero’ strategy with the false claim that decarbonisation will damage family incomes.

Organising to protect families who cannot pay their fuel bills, as Fuel Poverty Action and the local groups it supports do.

Linking climate protest with trade union action for a just transition.

Interacting with local councils that have declared a climate emergency but failed to act on it.