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    The enemy within

    Dec 15, 2019 4 minutes

    In claiming that greenhousegas emissions continue to rise partly because of a “systematic, organised campaign by the fossil-fuel industry and its allies”, Naomi Oreskes (“Climate of deception”, December 14) diverts attention from the real guilty parties.

    To see who they are, we need look no further than our rush-hour-clogged motorways. Until each of us in our fossil-fuel-powered vehicle switches to public transport or an electric vehicle, we have no hope of combating climate change.

    It’s easy to blame the fossil-fuel industry or our governments, while ignoring the drastic lifestyle changes urgently required of you and me. As Pogo

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