Ideology: Storms lie ahead in clash of climate champions

Bernice Lee warns the global warming battle isn’t for the faint-hearted

The World Today

Published 1 October 2021

Updated 5 October 2021 — 2 minute READ

Image — Extinction Rebellion protesters stage a March for Nature through London in September 2021

Bernice Lee

Associate Fellow, Environment and Society Centre

Heads definitely turned when members of Extinction Rebellion charged into the British offices of the conservation organization WWF. Their grievance was allegedly over WWF’s conservation activities.

But this public display of divergent views among ostensibly like-minded environmental groups may be first of many as climate issues go mainstream and occupy an ever-growing space in political life.

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