Doing what’s right

Claire Trevett (Weekend Herald, July 17) sets up the argument that this Government has paid little attention to farmers’ needs and concerns. What it brings into question is where Trevett has been over the past 30 years. The damage already affecting us from climate change has been an ongoing discussion for so long, at least 30 years, we are almost immune to it. Past governments have paid little heed to warnings and suddenly, with nine years left to change our behaviour, our way of living, our Government wants to work swiftly to set things in place.

Many farmers have already heeded these warnings and have made moves on behalf of us all. So why do others believe they are being picked on? Why haven’t they made some changes? Did the disinterest of previous leaders give them permission, or are they deniers of climate change?

Trevett doesn’t help by slighting a Government trying to do what is right for humankind as quickly as they can.