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The growing climate backlash in Europe
Politicians are retreating from pledges and fudging on targets as the costs of carbon emission cuts sink in.
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More worryingly, Europe’s backlash against climate change restrictions is only beginning.
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“We are all climate sceptics,” Professor Clive Hamilton – a leading Australian academic and pioneer in predicting the profound impact of climate change on our societies – warned years ago.
When he spoke, many politicians still dismissed climate change as a hoax. One of the first acts of US President Donald Trump when he came into office in 2017 was to pull his country out of the Paris Agreement,

