Letter to the Editor

It is proposed that from 2050 on, we’ll have alternative energy, solar and wind and, blackouts. We have then saved our planet, so they think. How wonderful! I will not be here then, than thank God and, I don’t have to get a wood fired stove and I don’t have to cut down my trees down in my yard for firewood to cook and for warmth.

However, we will still mine coal and gas and sent it to countries, like China and India, to name a couple who are the biggest polluters. And our myopic Greens and left-wing politicians who are pushing the above, have not been able to work out yet how to stop volcanoes in Indonesia which are producing more pollution when active as China and India combined.

The proponents of this unreliable alternative energy should be role models now, instead hypocrites and, give up driving the car, discard all electrical appliances and use candles for light. And talking of hypocrites, Al Gore comes to my mind who has unsuccessfully run for US president twice, and Prince Charles is another one.

Sincerely yours,

Werner Schmidlin

Cairns