Protecting the climate and ordinary working people is a delicate exercise.
Look at the huge Yellow Vests protests in France where President Macron mishandled an environmental tax and the far-right exploited the discontent.
Bas Eickhout, a Dutch Green lawmaker vying for a top job in Brussels, says smarter climate policies can avoid more burning cars, flying cobblestones, and mass deployments of police.
Eickhout also dings far-right lawmakers for hypocrisy over fossil fuels and wasting taxpayer money by holding up legislation with vexatious amendments.
First we play a round of There Are No Good Answers featuring the British far-right lawmaker who wrote a draft opinion for a European Parliament committee denying climate science.
