Many of the climate strikers of 2019 are likely now wrestling with the housing crisis on top of everything else. Photograph: Getty Images
For those of us who work on climate policy and environmental advocacy, these past nine months have been distressing and depressing.
Last year was Earth’s hottest year in recorded history. We are on course for disastrous levels of global warming but it isn’t getting much publicity in an attention economy dominated by war, genocide and billionaire meltdowns.
The west of Ireland was without heat, light and water due to climate-induced storms but apparently our misery was the fault of the Greens who robbed people of self-reliance in the form of solid fuels, not climate change.
And those climate strikers from 2019?
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