The Guardian’s focus on climate change is to be welcomed (Why we put the climate on the cover, 7 March) – but needs to inform all its political and economic content for years to come and not be just one more issue that is addressed and ticked off before attention moves elsewhere again. I am hoping there will be much to stimulate readers around what we can do, as individuals and communities, actively to hobble the headlong rush of humanity over the precipice.
For a start, with the election looming, we can challenge candidates and parties on their commitments. This could, for example, involve redirecting the £6bn of subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry away from anything to do with extraction and towards clean and renewable sources of energy. It could bring an end to fracking in the UK and re-establish the pre-eminence of the Climate Change Act over the recent covert introduction of conflicting commitments in the Infrastructure Act. Simple questions, the answers to which may determine whether a candidate deserves your vote or not.