We cannot afford to ignore energy problem

THE amendments to the Government’s Energy Bill are essential – targets for the 
supply of green power still need to be set.

As Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey and others have said, we cannot ignore our commitment, as the future costs may be cataclysmic.

It is an eventuality which may be expensive to deal with but which must be addressed today. We have yet barely come to terms with the credit crunch costs of 2007/8.

By comparison to the issue of energy, they will be like a molehill to a mountain.

Fossil fuels cannot be the sole energy supply for the future. If they are to continue to contribute to some extent, then we must acknowledge their environmental harm.

We need some hard facts and figures, not fudge.

From: Stephen Watson, Whincover Grove, Farnley, Leeds.

REGARDING the “State of Nature” report in the article written by Liam Creedon (Yorkshire Post, June 6), a 
number of threats to our British flora and fauna have been identified.

The most serious danger to them, in my view, is climate change.

Global warming has caused our daily showers of rain to cease. Global temperatures have been rising.

The earth has become warmer and drier.

The best remedy, I think, is to replace the trees that have been cut down, and to plant many more, all over the world. Trees attract rainfall.

Trees absorb CO2 and give off life-giving O2. There is an urgent need to repair the damage that has been done to the natural world.