“Vulnerable people will freeze to death in their homes this winter, unable to afford a can of soup, while his government refuses to tax the rich and the big energy companies who profit from our misery,” they said. “We owe it to our young people to stop fossil fuels, we owe it to our workers to create a just transition to a zero-carbon economy, we owe it to our elderly to enable them to live in dignity. We are not prepared to stand by and watch as everything we love is destroyed.”