Our climate is in a man-made crisis. Our world has moved from a hyper-localised agricultural economy, to a global, industrial economy. The impact on our climate has been staggering. Our planet is warming, our seas are rising, and while the human cost of this will be massive, the human cause of it is undeniable. Or at least, it should be.

The climate crisis is a massive threat to our way of life, but for the far-right, it's also an opportunity. Rising sea levels and the desertification of already dry areas could see billions across our world being displaced – in that situation, it is unimaginable to think that people faced with this situation will not try to find a better life.

Millions of people will flee these humanitarian disasters, and the scale of it could dwarf the ‘migrant crisis’ of 2015.

We already know that these conditions a fertile breeding ground for the far-right. In the US, Donald Trump regularly whips up fear of migrants on the Southern border to justify his extreme politics. Across Europe the 2015 migrant crisis destabalised politics, leading to the rise of the AfD in Germany, the Lega party in Italy and allowed Viktor Orban to whip up anti-migrant rhetoric in Hungary.

And of course, here in the United Kingdom, we watched in 2016 as both of the leave campaigns used the fear of migrants and refugees to fuel a hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric across the nation.

Our rapidly changing climate is already causing global food shortages, turning people into refugees and harming both global and local economies. All of these things can, and will, be used by the far-right to fracture our communities, and redirect people's anger towards those who deserve it the least. While we must push back against this hateful rhetoric, we also have the opportunity now to stop it before it happens.

The latest issue of the HOPE not hate magazine is all about this. We talk about our latest polling, carried out in eight different countries, mapping people's opinions on the climate crisis. We cover the killings and targeting of land-defenders across Latin America, as well as the rainforest mafia – criminal gangs who are fuelling deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We also have a guest column from our friend Lisa Nandy, MP for Wigan.

Below is some more information on the magazine, details of how you can subscribe, as well as links to read some of the articles online.