I’m wondering what the point of it is

11:58am Thursday 8th May 2008

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I WOULD imagine many members of the general public like myself are doing their bit to save the planet earth from the effects of global warming. I recycle as much waste as possible at home and at work, I changed my domestic light bulbs for more energy efficient ones, I always consider whether a car journey is really necessary and a host of other measures in the struggle to ‘do my bit’.

My question is: why should I bother? Yes, why should we - the average people in the street - have the finger pointed at us for global warming as it appears to be all our fault and nobody else’s? Why? When shops in town leave their doors wide open in cold weather with the heating going flat out? When deserted roads are lit up like Christmas trees all night? When two English football teams and tens of thousands of fans have to travel thousands of miles to Moscow to play a game that could easily be played at home? And yet again we the public have the privilege of paying heavily for causing all these greenhouse gasses - in higher fuel costs and increased road tax. Talk about carbon footprints, mine I am sure is reasonable small but many businesses and other organisations must have a combined carbon footprint equivalent to a village full of hobbits! (By the way readers, I e-mail this letter to save paper and an eight-mile journey to deliver it).

Jeremy Daw Ecroyd Park, Credenhill.