Since leaving the European Union, the United Kingdom has seen a worrying decline in crucial legislation. While the Union is strengthening its environmental regulations, the Conservative government is moving further away from them every day. A situation that endangers both environmental protection and public health.
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With our correspondent in London, Sidonie Gaucher
THE ” life process ” is engaged. It is in these terms that The Guardian attempts to sound the alarm on the various vital dangers to which the country is exposed since it turned its back on European legislation: less healthy water, more pesticides in the soil, the authorization of harmful chemicals, and the The list is very long…
And in detail, this regression turns out to be “tragic” because 85% of environmental protection came from the EU, also for everything relating to waste management, green spaces, pollution, intensive agriculture and reduction. greenhouse gases.
Steve Reed, the Labor Party’s environment secretary, criticizes the government for two things: reducing social and environmental standards instead of strengthening them, but also for obscuring the real dangers that the “freedom” offered by the Brexit.
The detailed analysis of this decline ends with a crucial question: the abandonment of these standards, “ at what cost to the environment and public health? »
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