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Keri from Brighton told 5 Live that he woke up to discover the tyres on his SUV had been deflated by a climate group called the 鈥榯yre extinguishers鈥�.

Alongside his punctured tyres, a note was left telling Keri that his SUV was seen as a 鈥榞as-guzzling machine鈥� and that it 鈥榮houldn鈥檛 be driven in cities鈥�.

Keri spoke to Naga Munchetty about his job as a mobile optometrist; 鈥淚 have to carry a lot of equipment around with me鈥�, along with car-crates for his 鈥渢wo dogs鈥�.

鈥淚 understand where [the activists are] coming from, but they don鈥檛 know what an individual does that owns that vehicle- they don鈥檛 know what that person does for the planet.鈥�

鈥淚n other parts of our lives, we take steps to mitigate our effect on the planet鈥�- Keri explained that he doesn鈥檛 have 鈥渕eat or dairy, for their effect on the planet and [he has] booked to travel to Italy on the train, so [he鈥檚] not taking short haul flights鈥�.

5 Live contacted the 鈥楾yre Extinguishers鈥� for a statement: 鈥淲e can鈥檛 ignore the fact that the increasing pace of SUV buying is cancelling out all the carbon savings from people switching to electric cars鈥�.

This clip is originally from Naga Munchetty on 30 April 2022.

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