Is causing chaos the best way for Extinction Rebellion to tackle climate change?

CLIMATE change is real, but I’m fed up with being hectored by a noisy minority. Extinction Rebellion is a subversive movement rather than the caring group of eco-warriors it purports to be. With its evident disregard for law and order, it’s becoming increasingly clear that its core members are anarchists whose agenda is regime change, not protecting the environment. I’m all for saving our planet by recycling and developing cleaner sources of energy, but let’s not kill ourselves economically by doing so in a mad rush. Name and address supplied. INSTEAD of blocking roads, it would be better if protesters used their energy and enthusiasm to plant trees. C. WATTS, Mundesley, Norfolk. I AM furious that celebrities have joined the fashionable cause of Extinction Rebellion to bring London to a standstill

and misery to thousands of people. Why don’t they take their protests to China and Russia, which have much worse pollution levels than we do?

HAZEL PIMM, Clevedon, Somerset.

HOW did climate change demonstrators get to london from as far afield as Grimsby? On broomsticks? How do they communicate? Smoke signals and jungle drums? They should demonstrate outside the embassies of those countries who really are adding to the planet’s pollution woes. As for the celebrities who are taking part, well, it’s a cheap way of getting your face in the media.

FAY GOODWIN, Lutterworth, Leics.

MY QUIET support for the aims of Extinction Rebellion has been dented. Its disruptive protest in London is not acceptable. One of its objectives is more wind turbines, but these have earned the reputation of being bird shredders. I fear its agenda is more about Leftist politics than science.

DAVID STAMPS, Birmingham.

THE protesters are wasting everyone’s time. Britain is doing far more in reducing cO2 emissions than china, for example, which is increasing pollution with coal-fired power stations.

JOHN BELLIS, Burton, Staffs.

INSTEAD of blockading Smithfield Market, Animal Rebellion should encourage the purchase of British beef and lamb. It would cut down on the group’s carbon footprint and support our farmers and meat traders, who work round the clock to comply with some of the highest environmental standards in the world. The protesters’ inability to explain what would happen to our beautiful countryside if livestock farming was phased out is troubling.

MO METCALF-FISHER, London SE11.