Cling to eco-policy, leave Trump behind

YOU reported (“Block on climate change policy”, Western Mail, April 11) that the USA blocked an agreement on climate change at the recent G7 summit.

This is further evidence that the Trump government is pursuing policies that would kill more children than the activities of the murderous Assad regime in Syria.

The World Health Organisation estimates that the tripling in weather-related natural disasters due to climate change is causing more than 60,000 deaths per year. It predicts that, within 15 years, climate change will cause around 250,000 deaths per year, with children being most at risk.

While the world’s governments agree that action must be taken to reduce the destructive impacts of climate change on human health, the economy and the natural environment, it is, once again, a Republican administration in the White House that is standing alone trying to block progress.

Like George W Bush before him, Trump has filled his cabinet with climate change-deniers and fossil fuel hangers-on.

In order to boost their short-term profits, this tiny cabal of self-serving oil and coal barons are willing to wreck the stable global climatic system that has, since the last ice age, enabled agriculture and civilisations to thrive.

It is vital that all governments, including ours here in Wales, increase their commitment to cutting climate-changing emissions so that we can reap the benefits of the rapidly growing low-carbon economy, leaving Trump’s blinkered clique languishing in the polluting past. Gordon James Llanfallteg, Whitland