Risk management

When two passenger aircraft collided on the runway at Tenerife, killing 583 holidaymakers all those years ago, we did not all stop flying as being too dangerous. There have been other fatal aircraft accidents since, and flying clearly has risks, but we accept these and continue to use aeroplanes.

Nuclear power also has risks, but its benefits as an energy provider vastly exceed those of harnessing the variable weather. Common sense says we can accept a remote risk, but it seems that green obsessions have no common sense.

MALCOLM PARKIN Kinnesswood, Perth & Kinross