A legacy no one can be proud of

■ I AGREE with Polly Hudson’s “Letter of apology to doomed generation” (Mirror, Nov 9).

I worry we are failing our children and grandchildren by not doing enough to save the planet. As Polly says we are “sleepwalking to disaster”.

The COP27 summit is all well and good but it’s little more than a talking shop without commitments from the world’s biggest polluters such as India, China and Russia, while the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine has pushed climate change down the agenda.

World leaders ignore climate change at their peril. We owe it to future generations to bring to an end our dependence on the fossil fuels destroying our planet.

R I Jones

Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan

■ Regarding Polly Hudson’s letter to her grandchildren, this was my view 50 years ago, and from that moment on I did my best to warn people of future problems.

I joined many environmental groups to campaign against the damage we homo sapiens were selfishly inflicting and still continue to inflict on our beautiful but fragile planet. One group I did support, and still do, is Population Matters. If we don’t deal with this issue then all other environmental problems will worsen. I’m now 81 and have tried to do my bit to turn the problem around. Sadly I must admit to failure.

G Howe, Hitchin, Herts

■ UK pension schemes currently have an estimated

£128billion invested in fossil fuels, and new research released by Make My Money Matter, founded by film director Richard Curtis, revealed none have a policy to end fossil-fuel expansion.

Whatever progress COP27 makes, it needs to be backed up by our pension providers committing to put the money into investments which place people and the planet on a level pegging with profit.

If we want our money to make a genuine difference we must hold pension providers to account on their climate action.

Hattie Edmonds, West London

■ Although my heart is with the climate-change protesters, my head says they need to be realistic. To use that tired mantra, “We are all in climate change together and we all want a better world”, but not to the detriment of ordinary people going about their business.

Just because direct action hits the headlines it doesn’t mean mass disruption is right.

Collin Rossini, Dovercourt, Essex

■ The recent road blockages by Just Stop Oil protesters annoy me.

They might stop the traffic but cars and lorries wait, possibly with engines running, or go a different route, possibly longer, which does not help the climate problem.

How many of those protesters drive either petrol or diesel cars and how many protesters have gas or oil central heating?

R F Hughes, Sutton Bridge, Lincs

■ So, Boris Johnson went riding in on his white charger to save the day and sort out the world’s climate problems at COP27.

Judging by the mess he made when he was Prime Minister the man is delusional. Anything to keep himself in the limelight. He’ll be on I’m a Celebrity soon... watch this space!

Ann Bolton, Lowestoft, Suffolk

■ It’s time leaders and politicians woke up to the fact that we live in a world of finite resources.

We need less talking and more action on rising global temperatures. Future generations will not forgive us for destroying our beautiful planet.

Christine Smith

Hexham, Northumberland