There is a real push going on right now to move the debate about climate change into a “solutions” space. Be it Naomi Kleins’ Beautiful solutions initiative, the debate triggered by the Rockefeller Foundation’s decision to divest from fossil fuels, or that lots of people are talking solutions.

The second hope (in creating an opposition to the neo-liberal party) is a popular global uprising. It has to be global to match the scale of the force and the structures it must challenge. Beyond that, it’s difficult to know what it might look like because practically the only thing...