Climate concern doesn’t divide by income: politicians should stop portraying it as a “class war”
Right-wing interests present eco-anxiety as a middle-class issue, but lower income groups will suffer most from climate impacts.
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Boris Johnson likens climate change to “the decline and fall of the Roman empire”
The Prime Minister warned that “things could go backwards at a really terrifying speed” on his flight to the G20…
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Why Big Oil is about to experience its “Big Tobacco” moment
A historic congressional hearing with oil executives may not have produced a smoking gun, but the tobacco industry has showed…
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Modi will talk up India’s green energy at Cop26, but how far will he go in ending fossil fuels?
India is on the front line of the impacts of climate change, but Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, is…
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Can we mine our way to a greener future without sacrificing human rights?
Climate action shouldn’t be at the expense of human rights.
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IUCN’s Al Mubarak: the conservation leader who says we can work with oil majors
While campaigners call for a ban on fossil fuel sponsorship, the head of the planet’s biggest nature network takes a…
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Our words for describing the climate are changing – can they spur us to action?
These small shifts may seem academic, but grasping the urgency of the environmental emergency in time requires good storytelling; it…
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How science conquered climate change denial
Experts and activists battled the fossil fuel lobby to establish the facts of global warming.
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