‘Bigger than Brexit’: Exploring right-wing populism and net-zero policies in the United Kingdom
‘Bigger than Brexit’: Exploring right-wing populism and net-zero policies in the United Kingdom
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“比英国脱欧更重要”：探索英国的右翼民粹主义和净零政策
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10.1016/j.erss.2022.102681
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2022
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Ed Atkins
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Ed Atkins
民粹主义政治运动的出现和巩固对可再生能源转型产生了重要影响-反对基础设施，否认气候科学，或将脱碳与社会中更广泛的对抗联系起来。民粹主义项目的性质可以改变，吸收新的需求和不满，并将它们与新的叙事，政策和反对形式联系起来。这篇评论探讨了英国的一个紧急变化-追踪右翼民粹主义政治家和评论员如何将净零政策与生活成本危机联系起来，将脱碳描述为一种不民主的追求，并确认需要加快政策，使天然气能够水力压裂。这些叙述的潜在扩散构成了一个挑战，净零政策被进一步拉入更广泛的政治辩论。然而，这些叙述也表明了英国净零政策的重要复杂性，这可能使脱碳获得进一步的公众吸引力-通过与政府“升级”议程和更广泛的“绿色”创造就业政策相联系。
The emergence and consolidation of populist political movements have important consequences for renewable energy transitions – opposing infrastructure, denying climate science, or linking decarbonisation to broader antagonisms in society. The character of populist projects can change, absorbing new demands and grievances and linking them together within new narratives, policies, and forms of opposition. This commentary explores one emergent change in the United Kingdom – tracing how right-wing populist politicians and commentators have linked net-zero policies to a cost-of-living crisis, characterising decarbonisation as an undemocratic pursuit, and affirming the need to accelerate policies that enable the fracking of natural gas. The potential proliferation of these narratives poses a challenge, with net-zero policies being further pulled into broader political debates. However, such narratives also demonstrate important complexities of net-zero policies in the UK, which may enable decarbonisation to gain further popular appeal – through being linked to government ‘levelling up’ agendas and broader policies of ‘green’ job creation.