From Chas Bazeley, Colchester, Essex, UK
You write about the steep price we face for failing to tackle climate change (4 November, p 24). One reason for our apathy is that, in the UK at least, the government uses climate change as an excuse to tax the public and restrict their freedoms while using “carbon neutral” wood-burning at Drax power station to fudge its own figures on renewables. People are unlikely to become enthusiastic about climate-change mitigation unless those in power are seen to be taking it seriously.
