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Letters / Everyone has to be part in fighting climate change

Those who are members of the European Union supporters club should consider how the EU plans to apply its recovery fund.

The EU has attached ‘fiendishly complex’ green taxes to poorer countries keen to access its 750bn euro recovery fund.

Meanwhile, EU commissioners exempt their private jets and gas guzzling supercars.

If we are committed to fighting climate change, everyone has to be part of that.

Leaving it just to the little people isn’t going to work.

Brian Nugent
Restore Scotland
Hamnavoe

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