A 'budget for the next generation' can't ignore climate change

'We're not afraid to put the next generation first,' said George Osborne. But his lack of action in the face of global warming indicates the opposite

"Doing the right thing for the next generation is what the government and this budget is about," chancellor George Osborne told parliament on Wednesday. "I am not prepared to look back at my time here in this parliament, doing this job and say to my children's generation: I'm sorry. We knew there was a problem " but we ducked the difficult decisions and we did nothing."

However, despite rising global temperatures now shattering all records, the issue of climate change did not get a single mention in his speech. Worse than the missing words, the budget did almost nothing to support the clean energy economy the UK needs to develop for the 21st century, and did a lot to block it.