Stop climate change, don’t ‘adapt’ to it | Letters:

Judy Hindley says we must increase the price of fossil fuels, and Iain Climie raises the issue of climate change refugees

While I appreciate your work in keeping the spotlight on the global heatwave (World on fire: the rise of the 50C city, G2, 13 August), I'm scared by the emphasis of your correspondents and leader writers on "adapting" to climate change (Letters, 11 July). You don't "adapt" to a raging fire, do you? You have to stop it. And the first thing you need to do is stop pouring fuel on it.

Leading scientists worldwide now agree that the main cause of the climate crisis is the burning of fossil fuels, and leading economists agree that the solution is to price fossil fuels out of the market. Until that happens, we will be paying - with our health, our lives and our children's future.

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