n I TAKE issue with Chris Lennard's letter headlined "Politicians never seem to learn ecological lessons."
Like our European Trojan Horse, the "Worcestershire Partnership," Chris Lennard says road transport is responsible for some 25 per cent of our carbon dioxide emissions. That figure is wholly misleading.
In terms of fuel combustion emissions of Co2, the main causes are power generation, 28 per cent, domestic combustion 16 per cent, industrial combustion, 15 per cent, petrol combustion 12 per cent, Derv combustion 8 per cent and others 21 per cent.
Those figures do not include the combustion of aviation spirit. None of the available data, on UK carbon dioxide emissions, takes into account the amount of Co2 being emitted into our atmosphere by the airline industry. So all the figures generally available are skewed by that omission.
The best figures I have seen in the media regarding carbon dioxide emissions, by sector, are as follows- motoring 10 per cent. industry and commerce 15 per cent, housing 25 per cent and Airlines 50 per cent. Those data largely destroy Mr Lennard's letter, and hence the environmental strategies of the Green Party. If the Green Party is determined to take action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, why is it only picking on the car driver? Why isn't the Green Party attacking the airline industry, and those who want to see a vast increase in airline use, for being responsible for half our emissions of carbon dioxide?
And why isn't the Green Party attacking the endless building of new houses in our city, our county and our country, when housing is responsible for 25 per cent of our carbon dioxide emissions?
And when you consider that eight our of 10 of those new houses is for people coming to our country, why isn't the Green Party attacking the immigration that is adding a million people a year to our country's population?
N TAYLOR, Worcester.
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