Greens should take stand in population

DEAR Editor, The Earth is under environmental threat as never before. Britain faces HS2, airport expansion, new motorways, increasing traffic gridlock, dozens of new “garden” towns and a whacking one million homes for Oxfordshire.

National planning no longer exists. It is replaced by the force of massive and continuous population growth which is rewriting planning law, redefining the green belt and ignoring conservationists. We are witnessing the greatest ever invasion of our country and under current policy it is unstoppable.

The Greens will not acknowledge this blatant truth. At the core of the green movement should be the concept that we share this planet in proportion with plants and animals.

Their primary and urgent message should be the need for a national and global population policy.

Government and opposition remain silent and petrified of the population issue. To allow our population to rocket, when the environmental damage and pressure on resources it is causing is obvious, is an appalling abdication of responsible government.

We desperately need a Green Party with guts to carry this unpopular, but imperative, message since they clearly recognise the perilous state of our planet.

Keith Watkins, Walsall