Electrical sensitivity is much misunderstood
THE latest letter in the Echo’s long running correspondence about electricity generation despairs of the technical illiteracy of our political leaders (“Nuclear the way as wind power a waste”, letters, March 26).
Readers may be permitted a wry smile, as one wonders when any of your expert correspondents will acknowledge that biological illiteracy is an equally alarming feature of their discussions.
Electrical currents, albeit of minuscule power, play a vital role in the initiation and regulation of biological processes, throughout the living world.
Following a disagreement between Alessandro Volta and Luigi Galvani, more than 200 years ago, most of the western world followed Volta’s advice that electricity played no important part in biological systems.
The growth in demand for electricity is such that we expect that it powers everything from mobile phones to ocean-going ships and orbiting satellites.
Our entitlement to electricity, everywhere, 24/7, is normalised and not in doubt.
Unless of course one understands the biological as well as the technical aspects of the problem. Particularly if one knows and understands the difficulties facing people with the common symptoms, often disabling, of electrical sensitivity, and is aware of the effects of electricity on the natural world.
Scientists and doctors in the western world are largely ignorant of the problem, so that sufferers receive scant attention.
Education, and research, is better as one moves east, where the potential problems of electrical toxicity are better understood. The financial interests involved are so enormous that these sceptical views are dismissed in the west. Ironically the internet, a copious user of electricity, enables those who wish to access the primary sources, to do so. Be prepared for a shock – not an electrical one.
Noel Thomas Maesteg
Why the silence over payments?
I REMEMBER Conservative politicians both in Wales and England criticising the Senedd for giving young adults leaving care a financial leg up.
Now the very same Conservative politicians remain silent over Rishi giving £3,000 to migrants to leave the UK for Rwanda.
Andrew Nutt
Bargoed
Go to the pub for some free advice
WHY does the Senedd part with millions of pounds each year on “advisers”?
They could probably get better advice, for free, by chatting at the bar of their respective local pubs. Steve West
Director Propel Pontprennau, Cardiff
Some questions for the Lib Dems
I see it was the Welsh Liberal Democrat conference recently and I am sure Jane Dodds would wish to comment in keeping the electorate informed:
1) Will all resources only be channelled into the Brecon seat?
2) Will the Valley seats where a number lost their deposits previously have local candidates with track records?
3) Will other constituencies (excluding Brecon) only have paper candidates?
4) How much priority and resources will be given to constituencies like Islwyn and Caerphilly which have no Liberal Democrat councillors?
5) Would there be any circumstances where the Lib Dems would go into coalition with other parties?
George Edwards-Etheridge Blackwood
Good reason to be wary of relocation
RE the news report “Furore over council plan to strip out and replace mosaic murals made by ‘hundreds’ of kids and adults”.
Beware any council in southeast Wales that suggests “relocating” murals that are precious to those who helped to create them and to the history and art of the area.
Newport City Council announced it was going to “sensitively relocate” the famous John Frost Square Chartist Rising mural, and just a few weeks later it had been totally destroyed without even the slightest attempt at relocation, causing massive outrage to people all over Wales.
In view of the turnover of staff in Welsh councils, it is entirely possible that the same person who thought up that desecration of one of Wales’ most important historical artworks may end up in charge of this “relocation” too.
The people of Monmouth should be warned, and be ready to step in and prevent the work occurring if they have even the slightest doubt about the scheme.
Ian McNicholas
Ebbw Vale
Consider welfare of the unborn baby
NEXT month will see (on April 27) the 56th anniversary of the implementation of the Abortion Act, which was passed into law by Parliament on October 27, 1967.
Since the implementation of that Act thousands upon thousands of babies in Britain have lost their lives through abortion, and countless women and girls have suffered damage through abortion, whether in body or in mind.
Let us pause, firstly to mourn... and secondly to reflect upon all the lives that have been sacrificed on the altar of expediency over that time.
It is worth reminding people that, in November 1965, that same Parliament had passed into law the Bill which abolished the death penalty in Britain, substituting imprisonment for life.
This means that in the space of just two years, Parliament had passed one piece of legislation which saved the lives of murderers, then passed another piece of legislation which enabled the killing of thousands of babies who hadn’t even had the chance to be born, never mind commit a crime.
I appeal to readers, please help me out here. I’m struggling to get
Scientists and doctors in the western world are largely ignorant of the problem
Noel Thomas Maesteg
my head around this.
Obviously I’m aware of the scourge of so-called “backstreet abortions” which had plagued the streets of our cities for years up to that time but does it make abortion any more palatable, or any more acceptable, to have it carried out in the well-appointed confines of a hospital or clinic, as opposed to a back street?
After all, the baby dies, one way or another.
We must consider the welfare of the woman in every case but we must surely consider the welfare of the baby as well. Don’t forget, we’re talking about two human beings here.
Tony Young Llangennech, Carmarthenshire The small print: Letters will not be included unless you include your name, full postal address and daytime telephone number (we prefer to use names of letter writers but you can ask for your name not to be published if you have a good reason). The Editor reserves the right to edit all letters.