Dear Sir,
With regard to J.D. Clare’s letter on climate change and his bucket list of ‘things to do’ to save the planet, I think he must live on fantasy island!
For starters there is no doubt that climate change is on its way at a great rate of knots, but if the whole of the UK became carbon free tomorrow it would have little, or no, effect on the world’s climate.
You’ve got China, Amercia, Australia and other smaller countries burning fossil fuels and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Oil and gas will continue to be used for years to come and in Brazil the rain forests are being devastated to grow crops.
The biggest polluter on the planet is the human race, so consider this, if there wasn’t a human race, would there be any pollution?
Every child born, from cradle to grave, has to be fed, watered, clothed and housed. For the materials to do this would produce tons of C02, with ever increasing amounts as the population increased. What is being done about it?
Nothing, and because we are doing nothing about it, old mother nature has decided to take a helping hand. Just going back a few hundred years we had the bubonic plague, the Spanish flu, two world wars and other plagues and pestilances. Now we have Covid 1 and 2 and possibly more.
As I write, on the radio it stated east Africa is being overrun with locusts. Has it not dawned on the powers that be that nature is trying to tell us something. We ignore it at our peril.
Birth control never gets a mention. It seems as if some people seem to think it is OK to have as many children as they want, whether or not they can support them.
Only time will tell who is right.
R.C. Crook
