"Speaking on the eve of the UN's climate summit, Ed Miliband said it was the cause progressives could rally around, because most people recognise populist parties have got it wrong. We're not going to give up and the progress that we've already made should give us heart, he said. Giving up would be a total betrayal. Defeatism never took a single of a fraction of a degree of global warming. It never created a single job."
"The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, struck a note of desperation when he warned this week that efforts to limit heating to 1.5C above preindustrial levels the goal of the Paris climate agreement, and the last safe point, according to scientists had failed. We've got to be the bearers of hope, Miliband said. We can fight back. Climate is a strength [in the battle against hard-right populism] not a weakness. We're about giving a better future for people's kids and grandkids."
Tackling the climate emergency can turn the tide against hard-right populists worldwide and serve as a rallying cause for progressives. Progress on climate policy should inspire hope rather than defeatism, because defeatism yields no temperature reductions or jobs. World leaders met in Belem, Brazil, ahead of Cop30 to seek pathways that limit global temperatures and avoid climate breakdown. A UN warning indicated efforts to keep warming to 1.5C may have failed. Populists promote gloom, while climate action can be framed as delivering a better future for children and grandchildren. UK political operatives debated how prominently to present climate policies.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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