12:39pm Friday 15th August 2008
I AM amazed at Anthony Weeden's use last week of the analogies of 16th century witch-hunts and the 20th century anti-semitic and McCarthyist movements to support his assertion that current climate changes are not related to human activity.
There is almost unanimous consensus amongst the world's leading climatologists that the drastic changes we are now experiencing are caused by our ever-increasing use of fossil fuels.
While it is true that climate change has occurred historically this does not alter the fact that a century of increasing carbon emissions, alongside destruction of vast areas of rainforest and pollution of the oceans and land, has upset the planet's delicate ecological balance.
If any conspiracy exists is it not in the interest of those who benefit most from maintaining the status quo of continuing unchecked global industrial capitalism to deny climate change? The increasing number of people who have woken up to the twin threats of declining cheap oil and climate change are already taking action and preparing for a future without oil. Moves are already underway to establish a Transition Initiative in High Wycombe.
Celia Carter, Fremantle Road, High Wycombe
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