The two extremes of the climate debate are defined by the denialists who would do nothing and the defeatists who will agree to anything. But regardless of the urgency of the climate crisis, our democratic systems can’t work if we are too afraid to use them.
The whole point of parliament is to facilitate debate about the options we face, but when it comes to climate policy there are some in the commentariat who believe such debate is not just a distraction, but dangerous. But such a passionate belief that suggesting improvements to legislation risks ‘the perfect becoming the enemy of the good’ is as irrelevant as the belief by others that climate change is a fraud.
