OPINION: The error of demonising carbon “polluters”*

From the very beginning, the global warming and climate change discourse has been confounded by an inaccurate use of terminology. The effect, initially, was the demonisation of the wrong countries as major contributors to the problem, if such it be; and in the longer term a revised terminology has disguised the meaning of the political response.
The confounding initially turned on the use of the words “consumer” and “consumption”, which were conflated with “pro…

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