Extinction Rebellion protesters in Islington. Credit: Talia Woodin @taltakingpics (29)

• IN your September 20 Letters, talking about climate change, Cllr Tricia Clarke said, “they [Extinction Rebellion] should be focusing on the real problem which is global capitalism, big fossil fuel companies, and a Tory government that supplies arms to Saudi Arabia and has inflicted universal credit on some of the people of Islington causing them great hardship”.

This is an enormous political deflection. Top marks to the council for divesting from the fossil fuel industry but we don’t have time to dismantle global capitalism.

In the western world, how we heat our homes, how we insulate our homes, what we eat, how we move around, what we buy, what services we use, what we recycle and where we go on holiday account for about 80 per cent of a country’s emissions. Some of these choices are made for us or are strongly influenced by Islington Council.

At the moment the council is consulting on its transport strategy. This was written before the council declared a climate emergency.

It needs to be withdrawn and redrafted with the zero emissions target at the centre of the strategy. The council needs to be unashamedly anti-car – pretty much where Hackney and Camden are in terms of policy.

JOHN ACKERS, N5