Lethal temperatures and wildfires have exposed a widening gulf between voters demanding action and politicians unwilling to confront the long-term choices global heating requires• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe climate crisis means ‘we’re going to have to change everything – the way we live, the way we produce, the way we trade,’ France’s veteran radical-left firebrand, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, told the summer congress of his France Insoumise party last weekend.The term ‘climate change’, said Mélenchon – the most likely rival to Marine Le Pen in next year’s presidential run-off, according to one poll this week – may sound ‘almost reassuring’, but its actual impact will feel like ‘landing on another planet whenever we leave home’. Continue reading…