As Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes told The Nation when asked about the "but we all use fossil fuels" argument: "Of course we do, and people in the North wore clothes made of cotton picked by slaves. But that did not make them hypocrites when they joined the abolition movement. It just meant that they were also part of the slave economy, and they knew it. That is why they acted to change the system, not just their clothes."

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