The people running our country are invested in ecological disaster: much of the Conservative Party’s funding comes from pollutocrats. This helps to explain why, in the midst of the climate emergency, Rishi Sunak is licensing new oil and gas, ripping down environmental standards and using Labour’s green policies as another weapon in the culture wars.

The greater the political influence of the far right, the more environmental policies are dismantled, and the more people are driven from their homes by environmental collapse.

Can we break this vicious cycle?

On Tuesday 19 September, I’ll be joining a panel of speakers to discuss the issue. Chairing the panel will be the Guardian’s Europe correspondent Ajit Niranjan, and we’ll be joined by the columnist Nesrine Malik, and director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, Nathalie Tocci.

I hope to see you there.

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