Can weakened democracies survive global warming?

The populist movements of aspiring authoritarians deny science and appeal to religion to get votes, but large numbers of people who are actually affected by the increasing temperatures seem to turn their backs on scientific explanations and go into denial.
The price of doing nothing to slow and stop global warming will be to allow our democracies to approach their social tipping points and risk political and economic collapse, write Joseph Ingram and Bernard Schutz.
United States President Joe Biden was right to warn of the threat to democracy represented by America’s “Make America Great Again” movement, but even if American voters manage to hold the threat at bay in the next few years, an even bigger danger to our social and political order is fast app...

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