Focus on virus as climate is out of our hands

Sir, – Elspeth Mclachlan wants Perth and Kinross Council to declare a climate emergency, but what does that mean?

Lacking a description and definition, it is little more than a figment of her and politicians’ imagination and publicity.

Does she want more of our hard-earned money spent on failing to influence climate, even at this time of finances ruined by the viral plague?

Forecasts of costs of several £trillions have been made, although the UK release of man-made greenhouse gases, the hypothetical cause of climate danger, is less than 1% of the planet’s total output.

Scotland contributes one-tenth of that negligible amount.

Many of the world’s

on a golf course, but dangerous for people to play golf.

It may be that people cannot be trusted to observe social distancing without scrutiny from the nanny state, but that doesn’t suggest that there is any kind of grown-up conversation in progress.

Jill Stephenson. Glenlockhart Valley, Edinburgh.

other nations, China, India, Russia and the USA and more, are not complying with attempts to decarbonise but put out the great bulk of the world’s total carbon dioxide.

S o we cannot, alone, help the climate.

Overall, adverse climate change has been greatly over-hyped using flawed computer models without proof of any benefits from

easing lockdown has been derided.

It seemed to me a very appropriate slogan.

If one is going to cross a busy road with traffic coming both ways, at varying speeds and in varying numbers and sizes, then one has to be alert and weigh up one’s options. Just as we are asked to do when we are considering the easing of lockdown.

Mona Clark.

9 Millbay Terrace, Dundee. decarbonising, at vast costs in money and a wrecked lifestyle.

Our best national policy would be to admit reality and call off notions of a climate emergency and then concentrate resources on repairing the disaster of Covid-19 which is already resulting in our national near-ruination. Charles Wardrop,

111 Viewlands Rd West, Perth.

reasoning behind a change in the Covid -19 slogan from “stay at home “to “stay alert “has much to do with those in the Tory Party and big business lobbyists being fed up with the lockdown and the effects this is having on profits, dividends and the value of their investments.

By asking people to return to the workplace they are encouraging the majority of those who are accessing the furlough support to start working again. Those remaining at home are likely to be professionals more likely or not still in receipt of their salaries.