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12 February 2019updated 26 Jul 2021 12:27pm

It’s no longer climate change we’re living through. It’s environmental breakdown

To confront environmental catastrophe, we need urgent political transformation. 

By Laurie Laybourn Langton

In 1962, American playwright James Baldwin wrote that “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Today, his words should give us succour. We need more than ever to face the reality of environmental change.

I’m a researcher at IPPR, a think tank. We have been observing warnings of rapid, negative environmental change from the scientific community. So we decided to understand what that means for our work, for policy, and for politics.

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