Western Daily Press (Saturday)

Vent climate change anger elsewhere

- KA Wareham Melksham, Wiltshire

WHEN are these child climate change protesters going to wake up to the fact that they are now responsibl­e for climate change? Just do the maths… you do not have to be Einstein to work out that there are too many people on the planet.

Because of the climate situation, unfortunat­ely it is no longer acceptable for people to have more than one child. If they insist on having more, then they should have to pay a tax for every child over the one.

The protesters have not come up with the answer of how they intend to generate all the extra electricit­y so that they can use all their electronic phones, tablets and everything else that requires electricit­y.

Once they have generated the electricit­y and charged up all the batteries, how do they propose to dispose of all batteries once they are life expired, batteries with very toxic metallic elements in them? Also they all want to have hot water and showers produced from apparently toxic boilers.

We have to be grateful to the protesters, though, especially the teenagers, because there will be less cars on the road due to the fact that they will not be learning to drive, there will be less air traffic because they will no longer be flying off on holidays abroad, and no more going to McDonald’s – too many cows.

If they really want to protest, do it in China or India or America because they are by far the worst polluters of the planet. The amount we contribute to climate change would be like pouring a bucket of water into the sea. Climate change is a concern for us all, but please vent your anger where it matters most.

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