IN his response to my letter of October 11, John Milne (October 15) mentions reforestation and he may be surprised that I agree with him.
Unfortunately, too many countries are cutting down their forests for economic reasons. America and Canada are converting their forests into wood pellets and shipping them thousands of miles to the Drax power plant to produce "green" electricity and Germany is razing a 12,000-year-old forest to expand a dirty opencast lignite mine. How green is this?
The world has reserves of fossil fuels and developing countries will exploit them.
The world population will be 11.2 billion by 2100 and the 1.28bn vehicles in the world will increase to two billion by 2035 so any miniscule savings Scotland can make, at huge cost, will be meaningless.
Some say that reducing consumption of meat will reduce CO2 emissions but there are one billion cattle and one billion sheep in the world, some sacred.
A UN-backed scientific report says that stopping climate change will cost the world £1.8 trillion every year for the next 20 years so where is it coming from? The West?
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