Jeff Sparrow

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/18/the-climate-crisis-is-hitting-the-planets-working-classes-the-hardest-and-they-know-it

The conservative commentariat could not be more wrong in dismissing global heating as a concern of only the ‘woke elite’

Sat 18 Jun 2022 16.00 EDT

“What do you mean, ‘why am I working in this heat?’ If I don’t work, we will die of hunger.”

That was how Shiv Kumar Mandal, a Delhi rickshaw driver,explainedwhy he continued to transport passengers during a prolonged and horrific temperature spike thatexperts attribute to global heating.

Mandal, one presumes, does not consider planetary warming a topic relevant only to the rich.

Yet, in the wake of the Australian federal election, we’re hearing versions of that claim again and again and again.

Lismore’s residents are living…