Meeting with Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Movement and author of the Transition Handbook.
Peak oil and global warming are the biggest challenges ahead for the 21st century. Rob’s visionary ideas and the aims of the Transition Movement have rightly established Totnes’ national and international reputation as a champion for change in environmental policy. I am committed to working with Transition Town Totnes if elected as your MP and support their views on almost all issues except for nuclear energy. I do feel that nuclear power needs to stay as part of the mix if we are going to achieve reductions in CO2 emissions and prevent the lights going out over Britain. No government should have allowed such a yawning gap in energy security as we will now face in the next decades.