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Letter: Who needs to make sacrifices for the climate?

Published 29 October 2025

From Albert Beale, London, UK

Vincent Flood, in Illinois, US, pins inordinate faith on geoengineering to keep our planet in a habitable state – partly, it seems, because you can’t “tell people in low-income countries they can’t have air conditioning or cars…”. But people in low-income countries currently aren’t the biggest problem. The people who do have to be forced to quickly give up most of their cars and flights are those living in the richest countries, like mine, and Vincent’s.

Issue no. 3567 published 1 November 2025

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