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 blame
With reference to Lucy Ellmann’s starkly eloquent letter , 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.
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