Boycott products instead

IT is commendable that some youth need to protest about climate change, especially if the protest is genuine and not just for a bit of fun or distraction from learning.

As to learning, I hope they know who the top three world polluters are. China, 30 per cent, US 15 per cent and India 7 per cent, a total of 52 per cent. Boycotting products from these countries will have a greater impact than protesting. Chris Bradley, Kewarra Beach youth, another armed robbery in the city area and so it goes on daily.

I have just returned from a very enjoyable trip to Singapore where the crime rate is very low. The city is clean and safe where anyone can walk at night without the fear of being mugged or worse.

Singapore is multicultural so punishment for crime cannot be deemed as being racially profiled. The government deals with transgressors efficiently so there is a real deterrent for any would-be offenders.

The toothless tiger of the Australian judicial system should have a long hard look at the Singaporean justice system. Hilary Caligaris, Woree 1970: Jimi Hendrix, US rock singer and guitarist, dies of a drug overdose aged 27. 2000: At the Sydney Olympics, Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband shocks Ian Thorpe to win the 200m freestyle gold, equalling his own world record of 1:45.35. 2001: Letters postmarked in Trenton, New Jersey, which test positive for anthrax, are sent to the New York Post and the US NBC broadcasting network anchor Tom Brokaw. 2008: Britt Lapthorne, 21, of Melbourne, goes missing after leaving friends at a nightclub in Dubrovnik, Croatia. A badly decomposed and dismembered body, found in a cove near Dubrovnik town centre on October 6, is later confirmed as hers. 2013: Tony Abbott (above) is sworn in as Australian Prime Minister, 11 days after his election win over Labor’s Kevin Rudd.