In the chambers of Parliament, where language carries the weight of history, Green MP Steve Abel reached into the darkest archive of the twentieth century to illuminate what he sees as a slow-motion catastrophe unfolding in the present. His invocation of Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' — a concept forged in the shadow of the Eichmann trial — to describe corporate and political inaction on climate change drew a swift and pained response from the Holocaust Centre, whose chair reminded the House that borrowed grief must be handled with care. The exchange surfaces a tension as old as moral phil