Food for thought

JENNIFER White (Letters,

April 21) reminds us that today is Earth Day.

She is perhaps unaware of the inconvenient truth that on the very first Earth Day summit in 1970, ecologist Kenneth Watt said that the world would be “11 degrees colder in the year 2000”.

She goes on to suggest that we stop eating meat and take shorter showers to help combat so-called climate change.

The problem here is that the money we save by doing this would just be spent on something else with an adverse environmental impact.

There are many good reasons to cut our meat consumption, but fixing the climate isn’t one of them.

Geoff Moore,

Alness.