It’s time for climate populism

This January was already the hottest on record, to the confusion and dismay of climate scientists who had expected this year to be slightly cooler.

Around the world, climate change action is under threat, and not just with a denier back in the White House .

The radical flank of the British climate movement is at its lowest ebb for years .

Caroline Lucas and Rupert Read say climate populism is a way of doing politics that shares rejection of business as usual.

Research shows an exhausted majority’ is tiring of endless aggression and division, they say.

A depolarising wave of action that mobilises communities’ instinctive protective instincts could really be popular. And that is climate popularism.