After decades of being pushed aside, the state of the environment is now making its way into people’s minds, as evidenced by the first climate-change-themed leaders’ debate in the run-up to the General Election last year.
Over the past 18 months alone we have seen catastrophic wildfires in the US, Australia and even parts of the Arctic Circle, while floods in Indonesia have left scores of people dead. This, combined with huge biodiversity loss, has led to a shift in tone from some parts of the media (The Guardian, for example, now refers to a ‘climate crisis’ rather than the more anodyne-sounding ‘climate change’), while across the world 1,250 local governments and 25 countries have made climate emergency declarations. As the United Nations says, ‘climate change is the defining issue of our time – and we are at a defining moment’ as a species.
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