Public responds to government environment expenditure

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Public responds to government environment expenditure

Tue 28th Oct 2008

The public has mixed feelings about government spending on environmental issues as the country heads into recession.

A street survey found members of the public responding differently when questioned about the issue.

Engineer I Aziz, 30, from Africa, said that it was more important to "solve the immediate issue of money" while looking at a long-term rather than immediate solution to eco-friendly issues.

Woodford Smith, a housewife from Limehouse, London, believed that money would be better spent in hospitals "because of the amount of times they mess up".

But student Anna Nelson, 22, from London, said that money would need to be spent on climate change measures anyway and that doing so now would be a "preventative measure".

And Graham Carter, 25, a Morgan Stanley financier, stated: "The environment is more important than money."

Climate change and energy secretary Ed Miliband has pledged that the government will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.

The current target is 50 per cent, the BBC reports.

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