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Paul McCartney blames government for not caring about climate change crisis


Paul blames the Government for the lack of change (Picture: Steve Parsons/PA Wire)

Paul McCartney has blasted the government for being ‘the only people who aren’t responding’ to the climate change crisis.

The Beatles singer had a few words to say on the severity of global warming and the lack of action taken.

Speaking to Vice, the 77-year-old complained: ‘It changes really slowly, so all you can do is what the kids are doing, and protest and do everything you can.

‘The weird thing is that the only people who aren’t responding are the government. Everyone else is going, “Yeah!” and Trump is going, “Climate change is a hoax.”’

Paul knows it’s necessary to protest and speak up in order to make a change, comparing the situation to the suffragette movement.

He continued: ‘I was thinking the other day, “Oh, it’s going to turn everyone off” and sure enough it is: “Oh they’re naughty, they’re making noise, it woke me up.”

‘But it’s like, what about the suffragettes? They were dying for it and now women have rights. Well, some women – not everyone.’

He stated the protests are necessary to make a change (Picture: Pierre Suu/Getty Images)

The former Beatle discussed the crisis at an event to promote a product from his late wife Linda McCartney’s vegetarian food range.

Along with his family, rapper Loyle Carner, climate activist Anna Taylor, and zero-waste restaurant founder Doug McMaster were also in attendance.

The Hey Jude singer compared Linda’s views with those on the environment and Extinction Rebellion.

He said: ‘She would have been out front, she would have been out there. You can look at all these protestors and go, “They’re out of step, they’re not doing what ordinary people do.”

‘But then you would still have slavery, you would still have women with no rights. There would be no changes made.

‘These things all had to have quite violent beginnings, actually, if you think about it. So this is actually quite nice, stopping a few people going to work.’

Greta Thunberg will be so proud when she hears this.



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