We must read the truth about heatwaves

THE recent heatwaves have affected people in my community because of the age of many of my associates.

The climate crisis wasn’t mentioned in so much of the reporting of the heatwaves and that even less was written about the fossil fuel corporations that caused and are continuing to fuel this crisis.

The science is absolutely clear: With every fraction of a degree of warming, we’ll see and suffer more extreme heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and hurricanes.

The Government must step up and deliver a real plan for jobs, for insulated and energy-efficient affordable housing and for climate action – a Green New Deal.

The media has an important role to play – and a moral obligation to tell the whole truth: this is a climate crisis caused by the greed of fossil fuel corporations, and the banks and governments that support them.

David Callow

Via email