Global warming the flagship of the Greens? (Mike Kuipers von Laude, The Sun, November 29). An important consideration, but hardly their flagship. The Greens are concerned with environmental degradation as a whole, social issues and the economy.
Know very little? Dr Ian McLean, in his CV on the Green Party website, has a 'PhD, MSc, BSc (all in biology), trained to appear as expert witness in the Environment Court. Some legal training”.

Dr McLean has never stated 'all wealth should be stripped and redistributed equally”. He adheres to, as do those of us who support Closing the Gap - The Income Equality Project, is the income gap between those on obscenely high remuneration and those on very low wages be reduced significantly. This isn't 'dismantling capitalism”.
The correlation between the ever-widening gap and negative social statistics, such as crime, imprisonment, drug and alcohol addiction, mental illness, obesity, domestic violence has been clearly shown in the book ‘The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better' by R Wilkinson and K Pickett, and many other publications. Climate change a smokescreen? How about the rapidly melting glaciers and ice caps; rising waters in the Pacific Islands; ever-increasing and more violent weather storms?

Global warming is happening - much more rapidly than predicted through a natural cycle. About 95 per cent of climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a large majority believe human activity plays a significant role in global warming.
Dr Ian McLean and E Orsulich are among others, in and out of the Green Party, doing an enormous amount of unpaid work to preserve and enhance our environment, endeavouring to leave it in an okay state for future generations. They realise environment and economy are interdependent.
G Ware, Otumoetai.