Drawing on examples of gas hobs, lightbulbs and recent social movements, this lecture illuminates a significant complicating factor in the implications that climate action has for the economy, society, and policy – and vice-versa: namely, that demand-side interventions are political lightning rods for wider societal antagonisms.
                                
                                            
 
             
             
                             
                         
                         
                                 
                                         
                                             
                 
            