Clause 3
Climate Change Bill [Lords]
1:00 pm
John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal, Conservative)
My right hon. Friend is right to point to those figures. I hope that he also agrees that, even if the figures were not so overwhelming, we have a fundamental moral duty to hand on the planet in a better state than we received it. If we handed on to our children, with every year less rather than more, then we are doing something fundamentally immoral. Contrary to what the hon. Member for Bury, North has said, some of us based our decisions about the science on very strong moral arguments, which is why we took a different view from him—it has nothing to do with our scientific judgment. We simply put morality first.