In comparison to the threat of climatic change, Brexit is a distraction

For an organisation that ran the inspiring “Keep it inside the ground” campaign, it turned out a shame you didn’t make David Attenborough’s warning around the collapse of civilisation (Report, 4 December) charge story on the first page. To get no mention anywhere of the 12 years we (at best) have to make any difference is a shocking omission. Costs rising is best issue the entire world is facing and readers can’t hold the message highlighted enough.

Can I additionally ask which you don’t print any letters suggesting that each one we will need to do is turn our thermostat down and consume more responsibly? As Naomi Klein illustrates in such a Changes Everything, the concept global warming may be solved by personal responsibility alone is usually a fallacy (and a second of your purposes why we’ve been in this particular mess).

This issue requires policymakers everywhere some thing now but they also won’t undertake it should they do not think people care, this is why it does not take responsibility on the press to report the chance we’re also in.
Rebecca Fricker
Loughton, Essex

The collapse of civilisation is on the horizon, David Attenborough told the UN’s annual climate conference in Poland. We have been privileged that this first people’s seat for the conference was filled by one of our greatest national treasures. Some words from him in Blue Planet 2 resulted in the start a transformation of the relationship with plastic.

But, right here is the thin end in the wedge in comparison to the alterations needed to enable our children to call home out their lives peacefully. We have to radically change our relationship using what we eat, how you would heat our homes, where our power stems from and exactly how we transport ourselves. Four years ago the economist Lord Stern said we end up needing a shot that surpasses the combined efforts with the third and fourth world wars to tackle the arrival existential threat.

To satisfy the changes we end up needing strong political leadership, nationally and locally just to walk through this unprecedented time. I to research the local political landscape and discover very few people in the party able to satisfy the challenge.

Since the 2010 IPCC report, both Bristol and Manchester have voted unanimously to declare a climate emergency. Our national government is specializing in Brexit, which happens to be just a distraction when confronted with what is the greatest threat our species has ever faced.

We require a new generation of political leaders to emerge and our collapsing climate in the middle of all their policies.
Caspar Hughes
Exeter, Devon

Your editorial’s revelation (6 December) how the 2014-16 carbon reductions were the outcome of a monetary slowdown that helped fuel an upswing of populism appears daunting for future climate-change initiatives. However, rising carbon emissions and extreme rightwing electoral advances are usually reversed. This will likely need to have a massive improvement in business activities on account of environmental policies that will be clearly seen to better prospects for the majority with the focus on green jobs in every community.

The obvious place to begin could be to make every home, commercial and industrial building energy-efficient worldwide. In the states this can be one of the central demands on the youngest from the newbies of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio