IN VIEW of the interest shown by the Gazette for climate change (for example, the July 19 Comment), I follow up my previous remarks on the inability of South Lakeland District Council to have any meaningful input in spite of its public meetings and the concerns of its leader.

China produces twice the greenhouse gases of the USA (often billed as a major sinner, particularly by the Left) and continues to pump out the greenhouse gases CFCs which also destroy the ozone layer.

I still maintain that the major source of world problems is population growth, which although most alarming in Africa, is also a problem in this country. Thus the flood of development in this part of the world, exemplified by the picture in the Gazette of July 19 entitled 'Spadework begins on 110 home Kendal development'.

The widespread destruction of green fields will certainly not aid climate change in a positive manner.

With the UK population expected to rise by perhaps 20 million in the next half century many more green fields will go and South Lakeland will come to resemble a London suburb and our contribution to a warming planet will be assured.

Kent Brooks

Kendal