Populism is very much in the air. It is not a new thing,1¹ but this time it seems to be more or less everywhere. As a focus of academic study, it has not been much analysed by environmental lawyers. Legal academics have, thus far, tended to focus on populist attacks on the courts, which are seen as getting in the way of the will of ‘the people’. As a field, this has predominantly been the terrain of constitutional lawyers, with the threats being ones against the rule of law.2² Well-known examples of such anti-court populism include the UK Daily Mail front page labelling the judges in the Brexit, Miller3³ case as ‘Enemies of the People’,4⁴ and the Polish government’s changes to judicial retirement age, which threatened judicial independence and were ruled in breach of Article 19(1) TEU by the European Court of Justice.5⁵ Environmental politics scholars have studied the way in which right-wing populist governments typically favour particular elements of the environment associated with nationalism and identity such as landscape,6⁶ but are often openly hostile to the science on climate change and, hence, to policy action to tackle it.7⁷

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气候民粹主义，法院和科学

民粹主义非常流行。这不是什么新事物，1 ¹但这一次似乎遍地都是。作为学术研究的重点，环境律师对此没有进行太多分析。迄今为止，法律学者一直倾向于关注民粹主义对法院的攻击，这被视为妨碍了“人民”的意志。作为一个研究领域，这主要是被宪法律师的地形，这些威胁是针对law.2的规则者²驰名这种反法院民粹主义的例子包括标记在Brexit评委英国每日邮报头版，Miller3 ³案为“人民的敌人”，4 ⁴和波兰政府的改变司法退休年龄，这威胁到司法独立和Justice.5欧洲法院违反第19条（1）TEU的被排除⁵环境政治学者研究以何种方式右翼民粹主义政府通常赞成民族主义和身份等景观，6相关的环境的特定元素⁶，但往往是公开反对在气候变化，因此在科学，政策行动来解决it.7 ⁷