On other matters

Alan Sparks (CP, 21/08). There is no need to worry about humanity’s numbers. They are self-regulating. If there’s not enough food and water people start dying off within a week. That continues until the population can be supported by the reduced supplies. There’s no need for the left to be planning to “reduce” populations artificially. Ruth, Brinsmead Re: Robots in aged care. What is the world coming to? How insensitive and careless of the aged care industry. What these people need is caring and compassion and often someone to talk to. Sickens me right to the core. I dread going into an aged care home when I have to. Dean, Bentley Park Close, but not correct Phillipa Cannon (CP, 21/08). Atmospheric water vapour primarily comes from evaporation from the oceans. Trees play a role in cloud formation through the release of aerosols that enhance water droplet formation. Trees are self-replicating and will grow more with more CO2 - for which we should burn more fossil fuels, not fewer. History Teacher, Freshwater Re: Susie O’Brien on screen times. Don’t give 2-year-olds smart phones is the advice. Susie’s answer - they just don’t get modern parenting. Addictive technology for my kids makes me a better parent. What? You know children’s cough medicine had heroin in it in the early 20th century? Any advice against that I presume would be taken the same way. You have no idea how addictive and damaging tech is; the warnings are valid. Mark, Smithfield Pangai Jnr gets five weeks for a tackle on Maloney. He should of got man of the match. Maloney deserves everything he gets. Al, Gordonvale A car “hurtled” off the range (CP, 21/08)? Sounds like we should be doing regular driver refresher training as we do with first aid. And the patient was “out of reach”? So the rainforest is thicker now than when early settlers crossed with pack mules and it’s not being destroyed by global warming? Good, panic over. Mark, Cairns North Good idea deputy editor (CP, 21/08). Let’s take on Woolworths in the courts and get another $600,000 bill. They’re simply getting an extension to something granted by the courts. Happens all the time. As for “not generally welcomed”. It’s only the business owners who don’t want the competition. Keith, Gordonvale Sounds like Channel 7 is in financial strife (CP, 21/08). I think their “softer advertising market” just proves the new saying “Go woke, go broke.” Tradie, Colorado