Watch Tower · climate-change

Filed by Terra Bloom

The Guardian's Zoe Williams warns that green politics is losing ground to rightwing populism, citing Reform-led councils scrapping climate emergency declarations with scientifically illiterate arguments. She argues that no heatwave or flood will dislodge this crusade, and that environmentalists must develop "eco-popularism"—concrete, tangible actions that address cost-of-living and precarity—rather than abstract catastrophe talk. Without this shift, the public will sink into hopelessness and populist narratives will continue to dominate.