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Have we stopped caring about climate change?

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Exclusive research for The Times reveals a huge increase in the number of people who believe the dangers of climate change have been exaggerated. Why is this happening and what does it mean for our future - and that of our children?


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Guest: Oliver Wright 

Host: Manveen Rana

Producer: Shabnam Grewal 

Read more: ‘There are bigger issues in the world today than global warming’

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0:00.0

Claire worked in the marketing department for an up-and-coming artisan bakery. Unfortunately, the artisan

0:07.5

bakery in question was so up-and-coming. Nobody actually knew it existed. But then she had the

0:14.3

really good idea to use Canva to create a business plan. It looked good, really, really good. Their investors thought so too.

0:23.7

And now their hotcakes are selling like, well, exactly. Thanks, Canber.

0:33.6

From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvine Rana.

0:42.5

From this...

0:44.1

I believe that we have a moral duty. We will be ending our contribution to climate change by 2050

0:49.1

and legislating for a net zero emissions target. Green is good. Green is right.

0:55.0

To this.

0:57.0

Net zero by 2050 is impossible.

1:02.0

I want a better future and a better environment for our children, but we have to get real.

1:08.0

And it's not just the Conservative Party that's been on a journey.

1:14.1

New polling for the Times shows that more and more people in Britain are questioning

1:19.0

where the climate change has been exaggerated, despite all the headlines and our own

1:25.5

experience of freakish weather.

1:28.2

2025 is officially the hottest summer on record.

1:31.9

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has issued several wildfire warnings this year.

1:36.9

The Met Office said this summer's weather was made 70 times more likely by climate change.

1:42.5

The evidence is piling up. Climate change is already here.

1:49.9

Scientists say lowering our emissions to net zero by 2050 is the only way to limit global warming

1:57.1

to 2%, a level that would avoid the very worst effects.

2:02.4

But among the public, even those who do believe that climate change is a problem,

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