Undercurrents: Can the climate movement fight back?

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For a moment in 2019, it felt like something was changing as millions around the world took to the streets demanding climate action. But seven years on, emissions continue to rise, fossil fuel expansion is back on the agenda, and a new authoritarian politics committed to extraction is gaining ground globally. So how do we build a climate movement capable not just of protesting collapse – but of winning transformative change? In this episode of Undercurrents, Ollie Neas speaks with climate justice organiser India Logan-Riley and journalist Simon Wilson about the state of climate politics in New Zealand – from the legacy of the school strikes through to the coalition government’s rollback of environmental protections, the rise of direct action movements, and the challenge of building mass political power for a just transition.