“There are very important arguments around tackling inequality, for all sorts of good reasons. But if you say that you have to wait for that [inequality to be eliminated] before you cut back emissions, then you are misunderstanding the complexity and misunderstanding the opportunities. If you had to wait for a radical rewriting of inequality across the world, we would be too late. We can’t make the transition [to net zero] depend on that, as time is of the
Class wars, climate wars.
“There are very important arguments around tackling inequality, for all sorts of good reasons. But if you say that you have to wait for that [inequality to be eliminated] before you cut back emissions, then you are misunderstanding the complexity and misunderstanding the opportunities. If you had to wait for a radical rewriting of inequality across the world, we would be too late. We can’t make the transition [to net zero] depend on that, as time is of the