'Steel dress girl' is the hero of the environment

When Margaret Thatcher was British prime minister, she brought climate change, acid rain and environmental pollution into important issues in the UK and the world.

In the late 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher had read many impressive environmental speeches, Guardian reported. The first speech took place at the meeting of the Royal Society of British Sciences on September 27, 1988.

"For generations, we have always thought that human efforts will keep our ecosystems and the atmosphere in equilibrium. But with great changes - like the population booming. , the burning of fossil fuels, the expansion of agriculture - in this short period of time, we have unknowingly created a huge experiment with our own planet , " Thatcher said in the show. valve.

Try British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. (Photo: nation.com.pk)

The argument Thatcher used in his speech was not new, but it had a great impact on environmental protection activities. The number of members of some environmental protection organizations, such as Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth, increased rapidly during that time thanks to her speech.

The second speech was read before the United Nations General Assembly in November 1989. At that time, Thatcher understood the political importance of the environment. But the time when she read the speech was also carefully calculated, because it happened when the Green Party is becoming more and more powerful in the UK.

"The things we are doing are completely new experiences for the earth. Humans and human activities are changing the planet's environment in the direction of harm and danger. Future changes will become more widespread than the changes we have experienced. Changes in the oceans around us, changes in the atmosphere above us will lead to changes in the climate. global - a factor that can make our lives change completely, " she said.

"Steel dress" emphasizes that every country is affected by climate change. According to her, industrialized countries should support developing countries to avoid the negative effects of climate change.

Last year Jonathon Porrit, the head of Friends of the Earth in the 1980s, summarized the impact of Thatcher on the environmental protection movement.

"Thatcher was the one who made the most efforts to bring environmental issues into the national agenda over the past 60 years. From 1987-1988, when she began talking about ozone, acid rain and turn. "Climate change, many people start to care about them. They say: Oh, if Thatcher talks about these issues, they must be very serious , " Porrit said.