Pray & Post
- Forwards not Backwards
Our latest Pray&Post campaign card
calls on the government to cut the
disproportionate
support
currently
given to the arms trade, and instead give
renewable energy the support it deserves.
The Defence and Security Organisation (DSO), is a
government department which gives more support
to the arms trade than all other UK businesses and
industries put together. SPEAK believes that this
disproportionate level of support is both morally and
economically unacceptable.
Our partner CAAT’s research* shows that a move
towards offshore wind and marine energy could
produce more jobs than the entire arms industry.
These jobs would provide alternative employment for
arms trade workers in similarly highly skilled sector. It
has a similar breakdown across broad categories of
skill levels and employs many of the same branches
of engineering. These would be better jobs for the
workers and for all of us: Jobs in an industry that is
growing not declining, which create a safer, rather
than a more dangerous world.
It’s time for the UK to move towards a future based
on new technology where we can trade for a safer
world, and clean, sustainable energy. It’s time to move
support from arms to renewables.
*arms-to-renewables.org.uk/readmore CAAT = Campaign Against
the Arms Trade
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