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Alice Bell is co-director at the U.K. climate charity Possible, working on a range of projects from community tree-planting events to solar-powered railways. She formerly worked in academia and journalism and is the author ofWhen your focus is sustainability within other sectors, such as media or finance, you may come across colleagues or higher-ups who don't fully get it.
People still think of climate change as a problem for the future, even though it's actually been present for decades now. When we talk about climate change, we often talk about inequality between countries and some parts of the world being richer than others. This is a big part of the story—but it's increasingly important for us to think about inequality within those countries.
There are lots of people in the U.K. who believe in climate change, who want to see action on climate change, but they feel uncomfortable about the speed of change, because we've left it so long. We need to change very, very rapidly, and they're justifiably worried about who's going to be driving that change to tackle climate change seriously. [Some politicians are] using the political opportunity of people who haven't felt included in the debate about climate change.
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