It's good for our society to have opportunity to express opinions and have free speech, and the Weekend Sun letters pages certainly provides this.

However, just a couple of letters from last weekend (November 15), I just have to respond to. What they say are misunderstandings and myths, frequent in current media. Maybe these are just to provoke, to stir up racism and climate change denial.

However, I must respond with some correct information:

Volcanoes release about 60 times less carbon than human activity. It is well documented in science journals that volcanic activity is minimal compared to human activity. Climate change is here and happening, and we can do something about it. Several individual US states emit more carbon dioxide in a year than all the volcanoes on the planet combined do.

Our beautiful Aotearoa has a multicultural society, and we are a bi-cultural nation.

We made a pact with Maori in 1840, and it's important we keep it.

S Taylor, Mount Maunganui.