Sir, – You published a letter from Oxfam Ireland, Friends of the Earth, Trocaire and Christian Aid (December 15th), in which they ask Irish citizens to pay more tax to help mitigate climate change by reducing our carbon dioxide emissions.
I would ask them to explain why Irish citizens, already enduring heavy tax increases for other reasons, should contribute more of their income and wealth while China and India are continuing to add additional carbon dioxide emissions in one month that are more than the savings to be expected at present from Ireland by 2020? – Yours, etc,
Sir, – Thank you for publishing the excellent letter on climate change (December 15th). How much better had it been headlines across the front page.
Much of the news is minutiae of small tragedies, however sad, when little or nothing is heard of those suffering from climate change or the danger to us all from a heating world.
The authors of that letter deserve our thanks and praise and the hope that our Government and every citizen will pay attention. – Yours, etc,