Old or young, northern or southern, working class or not, polling now shows significant “eco-anxiety” across the entire population of the UK. Recent years have made it clear, for the first time, that decisive action in response to the climate disaster would be popular — so much so that even the Tories have had to feign green credentials, even if their policy positions may amount to little.

At COP26, we are being told that the answer to this problem is to trust “market-based solutions.” The conference has even given Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos a platform to talk about what his vanity space travel expeditions taught him about climate change. Clearly, for those of us interested in preventing this crisis, few answers will be found in Glasgow.

The real fight against climate change will come from below, grassroots organizing that forces change to the polluting system which benefits the world’s most powerful interests. But here we have a problem: whether it is Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, or Green New Deal Rising, climate movements are using a mobilization strategy which aims to maximize disruption which then increases media coverage and thus public awareness of the issues.