Madam,

Perhaps all those schoolchildren who are protesting about our failure over climate change should take more direct action.

Turn off the central heating and put on more clothes. Indeed stop buying fashionable clothes – which are soon thrown away. Walk, bus or bike to school. Cancel all your holidays involving the car or aeroplane. And don’t buy anything which is manufactured in China – they are producing 90 per cent of the recent increase in carbon emissions. And don’t buy anything French or German: they are subsidizing their energy-dependent industries to carry on as before.

Make it a personal mission: A friend of mine was recently overheard saying we had to do something about Climate Change - whilst sitting on a yacht in the Caribbean!

Yours etc, Tim Johnson, Llanbadarn Fawr.

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