Environmentalistsmust shifttheirfocus

As a Glaswegian-born, I believe that recent complaints about Glasgow’s infrastructure-filthy pavements, deteriorating roads, crumbling buildings and so on- are fully justified in their relevance to our people.

Suchlike worries are among the areas where environmentalists’ priorities ought to lie and where efforts and diminishing resources deserve to be focussed.

For years, alleged anthropogenic adverse climate changes have generated anxieties and agitation, spurred on by deliberately imposed near-hysteria and, of course, public money in huge amounts.

For the forseeable future, further vast resources are planned to be wasted on UK decarbonisation in the futile hope of favourably influencing our local and the global climate. Whether or not world decarbonisation would be effective is quite unproven. If anything, evidence from the impacts of reduced greenhouse gases release during lockdown has not supported our proposed decarbonising. Atmospheric CO2 concentrations have not fallen.

Using the IPCC’s own data, the UK’s share of total global manmade CO2 is vanishingly small at 0.0000065 per cent.

The great bulk, well over half, of manmade CO2 comes nations noncompliant in curbing carbon - China, India, Japan, and many more.

The implications are that UK decarbonisation must be ended and that environmentalists and governments should switch their main attentions from climate changes to our crumbling national infrastructure. Charles Wardrop

Viewlands Rd West

Perth

Relaxing PA snapper Richard Wilkins captured this pug and its owner enjoying the sun on the South Inch