Time to give up our fossil fuel reliance

Being a past smoker I can see an analogy between  smoking  cigarettes and  climate change. In the early days they both proceed in a gradual  subtle way until a  point is reached where it becomes very obvious that the causes of the damage they inflict, one on planet Earth and the other on smokers  lungs, […]

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