Don't tar all men with the climate crisis brush | Letters

Simon Woolley on the appropriateness of using the word 'manmade' again and Stuart Pringle on the men who care. Plus Alistair Hay on why mothers are the ones to blameWith reference to Lucy Ellmann's starkly eloquent letter (We should blame men for the climate crisis, 29 July), I have spent 30 years teaching secondary geography pupils that we don't use the term "manmade" any more - it's gender-biased. We should use "anthropogenic" instead. It also makes you sound cleverer.I'm not sure that I've been doing the right thing. The climate emergency is indeed a very gendered fact of 21st-century life. The primary drivers of it have been male-led and male-dominated entities, and the primary victims will be poor, brown and female. Continue reading...