The government must abandon its fossil fuel power projects. If not, we’ll sue | George Monbiot

Last week's Heathrow judgment was a watershed. Now we must target other projects that put profit before life on Earth

No longer should our survival be an afterthought. If we are to withstand the climate crisis, every decision should begin with the question of what the planet can endure. This means that any discussion about new infrastructure should begin with ecological constraints. The figures are stark. A paper published in Nature last year showed that existing energy infrastructure, if it is allowed to run to the end of its natural life, will produce around 660 gigatonnes of CO2. Yet, to stand a reasonable chance of preventing more than 1.5C of global heating, we can afford to release, in total, no more than 580 gigatonnes.

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