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ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 10
Such a good @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social + @steveclimate.bsky.social paper here: examining how "climate pragmatism" has become a major part of the new lexicon of climate delay

Also see: "climate realism"

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Kemi Badenoch during a visit to the Port of Aberdeen on September 2. Alamy/PA/Paul Campbell Politicians now talk of climate ‘pragmatism’ to delay action – new study Published: September 5, 2025 3.28am AEST Author Steve Westlake Lecturer, Environmental Psychology, University of Bath Disclosure statement Steve Westlake and co-researcher Rebecca Willis received funding from the Centre of Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) to conduct this research. CAST is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Westlake also received a post-doctoral fellowship from ESRC from 2023-2025. Partners University of Bath University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. View all partners DOI https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.6p3mqms45 Share article Print article Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described her plan to “maximise extraction” of the UK’s oil and gas from the North Sea as a “common sense” energy policy. Politicians are using language like this increasingly often – calling themselves “pragmatic” on climate change and invoking “common sense”. It sounds reasonable, reassuring, and grownup – the opposite of “hysterical” campaigners or “unrealistic” targets. But new research my colleagues and I conducted, calling on a decade of interviews with UK MPs, shows that political “pragmatism” is fast becoming a dangerous form of climate delay. By framing urgent action as “extreme” and steady-as-she-goes policies as “pragmatic”, leaders across the political spectrum are protecting the fossil-fuel status quo at the very moment scientists warn we need rapid, transformative change. Badenoch’s latest intervention is a perfect example. She said “common sense” dictates that every drop of oil must be extracted from the North Sea, and that net zero by 2050 was a policy pushed by “bullies”. This came just a day after the UK Met Office declared summer 2025 as the hottest on record.
September 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Thank you! Real #ClimatePragmatism involves delivering a #LiveableFuture for current and future generations! @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @simonlightwood.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM