The Green Backlash

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As the individual costs of the EU’s Green Deal are becoming clearer, many people across Europe say they are unwilling or unable to pay the price associated with it. Anna Holligan explores the increasing popularity of anti-green political parties across the continent. She talks to dairy farmers in the Netherlands, who fear government green targets would endanger a sector which makes the country the world's second biggest exporter of food. She also travels to Bremen in Germany where concern over the phasing out of new gas and oil boilers for houses, dubbed the “heating hammer” by the nation’s tabloids, has lead to the government slowing down the pace of change.

In the meantime, the city’s Green Party vote fell by almost half in recent local elections while Citizens in Rage, which is highly sceptical about how green deal policies are being implemented, came from almost nowhere to capture close to ten per cent of the vote. The experiences in both countries suggests that the political consensus that seemed to exist only four years ago when the EU announced its Green Deal targets seems to have broken down. What might the possible repercussions be on Europe’s politics and its approach to tackling climate change?

Produced by Bob Howard.

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0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
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0:39.0	Hello, this is Seriously from from BBC Radio 4, and I'm Vanessa Casuile.
0:46.0	Each week, this podcast brings you two of the best documentaries the audio world has to offer.
0:52.0	You're about to hear something gripping, extraordinary, and
0:55.3	seriously unforgettable.
0:57.4	The old growth model that is based on fossil fuels and pollution is out of date and it is
1:07.0	out of touch without planet. It all seemed relatively straightforward in
1:11.9	December 2019 when Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission,
1:16.4	announced the adoption of the Green Deal, more than halving emissions by 2030,
1:21.7	a climate neutral continent by 2050.
1:25.0	It added up to the biggest overhaul of policies since the foundation of the EU,
1:30.0	encapsulating wholesale changes to how farmers would grow food, how people would heat their homes,
1:36.7	and what sort of vehicles they'd be driving, at a hundred billion euros to help the
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