Short & Sweet

On Fonterra

Fonterra should vacate their very expensive Auckland office and move closer to the main area of their milk supply. Peter Stiles, Glendowie.

On climate

Forty-two years ago, on behalf of the former Department of Lands and Survey, I attended a Rodney District Council planning hearing to discuss climate change and sea level rise and all the councillors laughed. Nothing has changed.

Bruce Tubb, Belmont.

No politician can afford to face this stark fact: Our only hope of saving ourselves and our children from the horrors of climate change is to cut the colossal network of global free trade and consumerism. James Young, Takapuna.

Eve McCallum (Herald, September 30) defends farmers and insists “Everyone needs to step back and look at the big picture . . .” The question is whose picture: the experts’ bleak diagram of evidence and science or the conservatives’ cartoon?

Dennis N Horne, Howick.

We should be investing in space exploration, seeking planets to which humanity can escape when this planet is no longer habitable. There we can develop, grow and continue trying to destroy each other as we do now. Gerald Payman, Mt Albert.

On transport

Mayor Phil Goff says if you want to damage council productivity, make our staff walk, bike, or travel by bus. His Auckland Transport policy is doing exactly that. Hylton Le Grice, Remuera.

On fireworks

Congratulations to Countdown for banning the sale of fireworks. Why doesn’t the Government follow suit and ban fireworks completely?

Jock Mac Vicar, Hauraki.

On National

Since when were politically edited clips from parliamentary debates “free speech”? Judy Keall, Stanmore Bay.

On Ponzi

The victims of the East Wind Ponzi have no idea of what they are about to face. NZ has no adequate legislation for unwinding Ponzis and returning the money to its original owners. Andrew Tichbon, Greenbay.