Debate is healthy, but B. Capamagian (The Weekend Sun, June 19) and I will simply have to agree to differ. Times have changed. The world has moved on. Past paradigms are questioned by a growing number of people.

People recognise that the ongoing development and unbridled use of fossil fuels is one of the main drivers of global warming and climate change, with concomitant environmental degradation. They favour an intentional transition to renewables.

They no longer view perpetual economic growth as the ‘be all and end all', especially on an already overstretched planet with finite resources. Rather it is merely a means to realising greater goals, such as human dignity, fairness, equality, wellbeing and social justice.

They are heartily tired of adversarial politics, characterised by constantly carping that everything ‘the other lot' does is negative and bad, and an unwillingness to give credit where it is due. Accordingly those who engage in it rapidly plunge in popularity.

I have three children and ten grandchildren. They tell me in no uncertain terms that these mindsets and approaches will neither promote the common good in the present nor the best interests of future generations. I listen, and find their arguments cogently persuasive.

P Donnell, Welcome Bay