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When it comes to climate change, the public is way ahead of the government

While ministers have floundered, it is the people that have been demanding better.

By Caroline Lucas

When the evidence of an accelerating climate crisis is all around us, it is no surprise that concern about climate change is growing.   

This year there have been extreme temperatures in southern Europe and North America, deadly flooding in China and Europe and dangerous wildfires on every continent except Antarctica.   

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