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| I have just scoured eight pages of your Climate Change supplement (7 December). I found not a single reference to one of the key drivers of climate change, the relentless increase of population, now scheduled to be 11.5 billion by 2100. Whatever action we take to reduce emissions, those efforts will be negated by the births of 4 billion more people who, even in the old “third world”, will want to be consumers. Nigel ReynoldsMirfield, West Yorkshire | I have just scoured eight pages of your Climate Change supplement (7 December). I found not a single reference to one of the key drivers of climate change, the relentless increase of population, now scheduled to be 11.5 billion by 2100. Whatever action we take to reduce emissions, those efforts will be negated by the births of 4 billion more people who, even in the old “third world”, will want to be consumers. Nigel ReynoldsMirfield, West Yorkshire |
| • Theresa May is right to dislike acronyms (Report, 8 December) but it’s time she considered her cliches. I suggest she takes a blue pencil to her sentence “I’m talking about ordinary working people for whom life is a bit of struggle …”. There are people who are too old or otherwise unable to work for whom life is a struggle. And who are ordinary people? I would hope they are those who do not have to struggle to make ends meet.Peter Le MareAllithwaite, Cumbria | • Theresa May is right to dislike acronyms (Report, 8 December) but it’s time she considered her cliches. I suggest she takes a blue pencil to her sentence “I’m talking about ordinary working people for whom life is a bit of struggle …”. There are people who are too old or otherwise unable to work for whom life is a struggle. And who are ordinary people? I would hope they are those who do not have to struggle to make ends meet.Peter Le MareAllithwaite, Cumbria |
| • In the interest of good taste (no pun intended), wasn’t it a bit insensitive to publish Suzanne Moore’s article explaining how “more UK workers live in poverty than ever before” on page 5 of G2 (8 December) – with its photo of a food bank – and then, on page 9, have Tamal Ray recommend a panettone from Selfridges costing £24.99? Waldo GemioLondon | • In the interest of good taste (no pun intended), wasn’t it a bit insensitive to publish Suzanne Moore’s article explaining how “more UK workers live in poverty than ever before” on page 5 of G2 (8 December) – with its photo of a food bank – and then, on page 9, have Tamal Ray recommend a panettone from Selfridges costing £24.99? Waldo GemioLondon |
| • “The problem has arisen as a result of an explosion in the numbers of diamondback moths arriving in the UK from Europe” (Brussels sprout ‘super pest’ threatens Christmas dinner, 8 December). Ah yes, those European moths, coming over here, eating our good old British sprouts. Brian SmithBerlin, Germany | • “The problem has arisen as a result of an explosion in the numbers of diamondback moths arriving in the UK from Europe” (Brussels sprout ‘super pest’ threatens Christmas dinner, 8 December). Ah yes, those European moths, coming over here, eating our good old British sprouts. Brian SmithBerlin, Germany |
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