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Letter: Not immoral? The fossil fuel industry?

Published 24 August 2022

From Nick Tigg, Lewes, East Sussex, UK

I was amazed to see a letter claiming fossil fuel production was neither illegal nor immoral (Letters, 16 July). Really? The oil and gas industry has known for decades that its activities aren’t just heating Earth, but causing devastating pollution and leading to a planet that will be uninhabitable.

Knowingly contributing to the possible extinction of human and other life on Earth would seem to me, and I imagine most people, the very definition of immoral.

Issue no. 3401 published 27 August 2022

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