The Far-Right View on Climate Politics
As the world reckons with the grim reality of the climate crisis, right-wing populists are adapting their message.
by Yasmeen Serhan
Aug 10, 2021
4 minutes
Perhaps the 234 scientists behind this week’s landmark climate assessment had hoped that their report—published during a summer of deadly flooding, wildfires, and heat waves—would act as a wake-up call, one that would unite the world’s governments and parties.
But political consensus on the issue of climate change, much like of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, is unlikely to be achieved: Although most mainstream political parties have at the very least acknowledged the reality of human-induced climate change and the need to implement sweeping new policies to address it, several populist parties continue to
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