Andrew Willshire

Why has Hope not Hate shifted its focus to climate change?

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Hope Not Hate is an organisation with a fine campaigning record which has done a lot of good in tackling extremism. But this week, they tweeted that ‘the far-right and the climate crisis are linked. They spread disinformation, fear-monger about climate-driven immigration and engage in denialism to spark culture wars.’

I’m not entirely convinced by the assertion.

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