I LOVED the picture (Letters, Friday, April 8) showing Warndon Villages houses at an oblique angle sitting cheek-by-jowel.

My opposition to the activities of the "development mad" are well established. We cannot go on building.

Sooner or later we have to recognise that our country, which is already three times more densely populated than China, is full up. Does the River Severn have to flow into the Guildhall, and our council offices in Farrier Street, before those we have elected to represent us understand that they cannot go on building and concreting over every acre of Worcestershire?

Do they not read the same papers as I do, or watch the same television programmes? Are they totally oblivious of the dire warnings now being given by virtually every "nature" programme?

Are they totally ignorant of "global warming," rising sea levels, catastrophic climate change, the thinning Arctic and Greenland ice caps? Are they totally unaware that the Antarctic Ross Ice Shelf is disappearing, and that bits the size of Jamaica are breaking off and floating away?

Confronted with all these portents of disastrous climatic change, shouldn't those we have elected to represent us be explaining why they are absolutely determined to carry on building a climatic catastrophe for our children and grandchildren?

With the media constantly warns of a looming global climatic catastrophe, why are we still allowing local and national politicians to behave so utterly irresponsibly?

Why are they expanding airline travel and chucking up millions of houses, when they account for three-quarters of our country's carbon dioxide emissions? Don't they have children and grandchildren?

N TAYLOR,