They have to deal with it

IF reader Mike Griffiths is a strong advocate for action against climate change, then his letter questioning whether students’ protests are genuinely motivated by their own concern is extraordinary (Letters, December 3). Our children and grandchildren are faced with climatic extremes thrust upon them by many years of inactive adults rejecting scientific research. The children are going to have to deal with it, not Mr Griffiths nor myself. If students are encouraged to take action by teachers who have conveyed to them the abrogation of responsibility by politicians, like Mr Abbott, I would congratulate those teachers, not condemn them. As a parallel, I have long felt that, in the face of continuing gun assaults in American schools, if one brave student could convince and activate all concerned students to strike from school until gun prohibition was effected, the US would celebrate that change forever. into the stratosphere then migrate to the South Pole. There in the southern winter the polar ice clouds with cosmic radiation release chlorine atoms. One chlorine atom can destroy thousands of ozone molecules. There are scientific views opposing and supporting the effect of CFCs on our climate but in view of the correlation of CFC concentration with the temperature record the theory the two are related is deserving of a little less summary dismissal. problem. I live in Barwon Heads, where Sea Change was filmed, a part of the COGG. Comments by Mr Williams are at odds with the experience of most people in my small home town. COGG is Geelongcentric and not interested in our village. The council tried to close our library and it fails to support basic infrastructure. Council bureaucrats earn enormous salaries. Our council was sacked. I am staying with a cousin in the Huon Valley, and people find small population councils comforting, and like the ability to lobby councillors or alderpersons. Money is not a valid reason for council amalgamations.