Activities such as recycling waste of all kinds, lowering carbon footprints and growing your own fruit and vegetables amongst other "green" activities will all help our world out of the mess it finds itself in the short term.

Unfortunately, unless society embraces a full on "Green" agenda taking in such activities as green economics, education, health care, law and order issues and all the other activities that go to make up our "Environment" the soft "green" options are just so much fluff in the wind of change.

This last week it was announced that our present "Growth Lead" economy had come to a grinding halt. Now you may think that as the Green Party advocates a zero growth economic system this would be good news to us.

It is far from the truth. Zero Growth economics is a system in its own right with its own set of rules. All that the "zero growth" achieved is to show us that the present system of growth lead economies is failing and needs to be replaced but a sustainable Green system and as soon as possible.

Both the people of North Tyneside and their local government on the council and in the Mayor's office have made a start on Going Green, unfortunately it is only a cosmetic action which camouflages the underplaying, failing growth lead economics that are still the major active system in our local governance.

MARTIN COLLINS
Green Party Candidate for Elected Mayor of North Tyneside.

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