The Guardian view on environmental activism: new energy is welcome | Editorial

Protesters promising a new wave of civil disobedience linked to the extinction crisis are right to be infuriated by government inactionHow to push green issues up the political agenda is a question that has exercised environmentalists for decades. Do dark warnings about the world that awaits us if we do not curtail carbon emissions and protect forests and oceans motivate people to act, or scare them off? Are apocalyptic visions such as that in Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road what we need