{"id":8060,"date":"2020-02-13T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T06:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8060"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","slug":"countering-climate-denialism-requires-taking-on-right-wing-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/13\/countering-climate-denialism-requires-taking-on-right-wing-populism\/","title":{"rendered":"Countering Climate Denialism Requires Taking On Right-Wing Populism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Richard Calland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>History may in due course record 2019 as the year in which the penny finally dropped about the climate emergency humanity faces. A sense of urgency was triggered last year by both Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg\u2019s courage in challenging world leaders to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/sep\/23\/greta-thunberg-speech-un-2019-address\">take the crisis seriously<\/a>, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/with-costs-approaching-100-billion-the-fires-are-australias-costliest-natural-disaster-129433\">apocalyptic fires<\/a>&nbsp;that engulfed large parts of Australia recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Increasingly, there is an understanding that the climate emergency is not an environmental problem. It has grave ecological implications, but it\u2019s a human development issue above all. And, it has profound implications for technology and infrastructure, for the world of investment and finance, and for global security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make sense of these challenges and work towards solutions, it is necessary to understand these links, tensions and trade-offs. This is why the international research organisation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/\">Future Earth<\/a>&nbsp;has produced&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/2020\/02\/07\/we-have-launched-the-our-future-on-earth-2020-report\/\">Our Future on Earth 2020<\/a>. It\u2019s a landmark new report of a dozen sustainability-focused essays. They are written by experts across academia and across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consensus among scientists is that we are now in the eleventh hour. That humanity has just ten years to take the transformational steps necessary to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/07\/world\/climate-change-new-ipcc-report-wxc\/index.html\">avoid catastrophe<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Will it get its act together?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, there is a harsh political economy. My own contribution to the Our Future on Earth report focuses on the impact of the global rise in right-wing populism on climate action.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/countering-climate-denialism-requires-taking-on-right-wing-populism-heres-how-131693\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Calland History may in due course record 2019 as the year in which the penny finally dropped about the climate emergency humanity faces. A sense of urgency was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[350,1258,1549],"class_list":["post-8060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-climate","tag-south-africa","tag-wing-populism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}