Re: ‘Being Green is easy' (The Sun, August 8), Ian McLean says it himself in his first paragraph.

The Greens put the environment ahead of people. Trees and mud puddles would have more rights than people in a Green world.

If there's a reason they should be given stick, excuse the pun, it's for this statement.
He makes the mistake, believing everybody other than Greenies wants to live with dirty rivers and murky skies, when that's not the fact.

We all want clean water and clear air, but we also want TVs, a new bike, electricity and cellphones. A compromise must be made for us to enjoy the lifestyle we desire - a compromise that doesn't involve wooden bicycles and carrier pigeons. Big business do as much for making a clean environment as the Greenies do while providing the luxuries of life we all desire.

It wasn't me that coined the phrase 'The only true wilderness is between a Greenies ears” but as another old saying goes 'Many a true word is spoken in jest”.

I don't make a point of attacking Greenies - after all I want the same things they do - only my approach differs.

They want to stifle and penalise creativity and production for a better world. I prefer encouraging and fostering it for a better world.

To their detriment the Greenies fall into the same trap of destroying individual and property rights as other parties.

While they continue to stifle the business world from providing the most luxurious lifestyle ever achieved in the history of this planet, they'll continue to be the target of derision.

G Clark, Kaimai.