I read with interest Ian McLean's letter and Rogers Rabbits' response in the last The Weekend Sun.

It is a good conversation to be having. While many of us may aspire to living as sustainably as possible, you're right in pointing out it's very hard to do without the luxury of land, time, and most importantly knowledge.

If we talk about going off-grid, that takes a further requirement for capital investment. We're increasingly reliant on fossil-fuelled transport, and sometimes we are just plain lazy and take a car for convenience rather than out of necessity.

Having a major news and information site that's paperless like SunLive is fantastic, and I applaud you.

But we must remember technology has come very far and fast in the past 50 years and there are members of our community for whom reading the news online is not something that's realistic.

When it comes to the big picture, however, despite our individual efforts to ‘be green', with our gardens, worm farms, compost, recyclable shopping bags, and call for ‘paper not plastic' etc, there has to be a movement for national and indeed global action with the realisation that climate change is a very real threat to our lives as we know them, especially in our coastal region.

We need representatives at that highest level, government, to ensure environmental issues are considered in all policy – fiscal, social and corporate.

Our planet and future depend on it.

Clare Wilson,
BOP Labour party candidate.