Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:44 pm on 1 May 2019.
Yes, and it's a fact, and this is what one has to recognise. India and China between them are responsible for 36 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions. And, in China, there was a 4.7 per cent increase in carbon dioxide emissions and in India, 6.7 per cent increase in emissions. Whatever we do in this country is going to be swamped by the reality of what is happening in the far east. You are proposing to impose massive economic burdens upon the people who are least able to bear them in this country—those at the lower end of the income scale. I think that this is grossly immoral, as well as absurd.