LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Still dying and fleeing country

I was saddened by a headline to a letter two weeks ago. I forget the letters content, but the headline’s start, “Now people are bored with news of Ukraine”, is a true comment on news nowadays. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia was banner headline news for a few short weeks, but with slowing of the action to the present war of attrition other news took precedence and concern has lessened.

People are still dying there and fleeing the destruction, the nation’s lands and townships are still being laid waste, but such is public appetite for “new” revelations that Russia could achieve its goal just by persistence, and the loss of interest in Ukraine’s plight. Pity!

Now for Mr Phillips! Comrade Foulstone is not gullible or indoctrinated, nor is he actively peddling policies designed to destroy the planet. He leaves that to the global organisations whose mendacity and rapacious greed you and your worldwide circle of friends support, organisations whose quest for power and profit leave no room for concern over our world or its inhabitants future, and whose only concern is that if the end comes they will still be the richest corpses in the cemetery.

“Population Matters” is not mine, it’s an international affiliation of scientists and observers concerned for our expanding human population’s effect upon our diminishing resources. Its published data is not new, it is the latest correlation of data they have been gathering for over 20 years. I haven’t seen the calculation you quote on how little space the present human population could fit on, but if accurate it is a damning indictment of how little space the human race, that is thoughtlessly devouring our whole planet, really needs.

China’s one child policy did not succeed, their birthrate had already fallen by 50 per cent before it even started, and after 30 years of adjustment and modification it was finally abandoned, its progress and problems being the subject of so many pages of easily readable data on the internet that I have no reason to add to them in this letter.

As the only constituency to have a Green MP, Brighton must of course be high on Mr Phillips’ hit list, so let’s replace his fantasies with facts. Brighton and Hove Council is a hung council, being equally divided between three parties. The Greens are the largest by one vote, but the reality is it needs the agreement of any two of the three parties to transact any action. The cost of living there is about the average for the county, slightly higher than Manchester, and about 33 per cent Cheaper than London.

So there we are Mr Phillips, three lies in one sentence must be a record even for you, though not I fear the organisations you promote.

Charles David Foulstone, Rotherham Green Party