SCOTLAND should be avoided by travellers and its goods boycotted as long as oil and gas is extracted from the North Sea, an SNP activist has appeared to suggest.
“Boycott countries who take more fossil fuels out of the ground.... Don’t visit the countries, don’t buy their goods,” she said, despite the implications for her home nation.
Susan Dyer also told her party’s online conference that petrol rationing and a ban on making non-electric cars should be considered to tackle the climate change crisis.
She urged people to “flood Boris Johnson’s mail box with demands” as she held up his parliamentary email address, adding: “We know where he lives.”
Ms Dyer and the West Fife and Coastal Villages Branch had proposed a motion calling on the SNP to “set out a roadmap to the year 2025” with specific climate targets, including a “state owned and run integrated transportation system… all powered by renewables”.
It also urged the conference to “stop prevaricating about what is practical or affordable and do whatever it takes to avert this existential threat”.
She told delegates this morning that the climate emergency should be the “top priority”.
She said: “The next five years are critical. In that time there will be an independence referendum. This gives us a glimmer of hope. Scotland could lead the way.
“Everybody has to step up to the plate. No one is coming to rescue us. So we have to save ourselves. This is a clarion call to action.
“Rise up, people. Get out on the streets and protest. Flood Boris Johnson’s mail box with demands. We know where he lives. That’s his email [referring to piece of paper].”
She added: “Boycott countries who take more fossil fuels out of the ground or cut down rain forest. Don’t visit the countries, don’t buy their goods.
“Only use your cars for essentials, walk, cycle, take the bus, stop flying, eat less meat.
“We all know what we need to do. But governments can act swiftly and drastically when they choose. They did it for Covid, they did for the financial crash.
“Demand transformational change at a scale and pace never seen before.
“Insist on the swiftest action to transition to renewables. Ban the production of fossil fuel cars within the next five years. Incentivise EVs [electric vehicles]. Ration petrol if need be.”
Delegates amended Ms Dyer’s motion to remove the reference to doing “whatever it takes” and replaced it with agreeing to support all positions agreed by the United Nations instead.
However the rest of the motion survived, and an extra section on having a plan to expedite work on making buildings more energy efficient was included.
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