Climate protests keep industry and politicians on their toes, and for this we should be grateful

The Occupy camps that flourished in London and New York last autumn were often dismissed as irrelevant, if not counter-productive to social, economic or political change.

They were, critics said, nothing more than a bunch of idealistic students or unemployed losers who were using the issue of anti-capitalism or anti-carbon as a rallying call for their own discontent.

So were they a mere distraction again last week, when they turned up at a London energy summit organised by The Economist magazine in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral?

The conference was a stimulating affair, with an array of senior energy industry figures discussing how to build a sustainable future.

But the debate was given an extra sense of urgency by…

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