Sir, – Michael Canney (January 13th) seems to suggest that uprooting our current economic system is a good idea in the context of the global threat of human-made climate change. While we all have to do our part, sadly it is not small nations like Ireland, but rather big ones like China, Russia, India and the United States, that are producing the most significant carbon emissions, and that need to get their act together.
With that in mind, it makes little difference to the polar ice caps whether we in Ireland elect a responsible government that will continue to expand our economy, reduce unemployment, and restore the public finances to some semblance of sanity, or whether we squander our hard-won “stability” by electing a smorgasbord of Independents in the hope that such TDs might coalesce around some shared policies and competently run the country. – Yours, etc,
DAVID McGINN,
Sandymount, Dublin 4.