'We've had so many wins': why the green movement can overcome climate crisis

Leaded petrol, acid rain, CFCs … the last 50 years of environmental action have shown how civil society can force governments and business to changeSupport Guardian journalism today, by making a single or recurring contribution, or subscribingLeaflets printed on “rather grotty” blue paper. That is how Janet Alty will always remember one of the most successful environment campaigns of modern times: the movement to ban lead in petrol.There were the leaflets she wrote to warn par