Dear Jackie (Ms Ashley),

 

I was encouraged by your comment in today's Guardian ("To save the planet, bring back Byers"). 

You have lifted your head out of the sand and are now courageously looking, bleary-eyed, towards the horizon and the still distant - thus seemingly small - tsunami heading towards us.

 

As your sight becomes clearer you will realise that the approaching wave is much bigger than you think.

 

Please don't panic or stick your head back in the sand.

 

It is not "five minutes to midnight", but ten minutes past! We (our children and the next generation) are in for a very rough ride, because instead of facing up to "The Limits of Growth", Earth's finite carrying capacity, and the "demands of sustainability" (rather than the demands of consumers and the economy) when they first entered public awareness in the early 1970's we went into denial.

 

The sooner we come completely out of denial the more people we can get off the beaches and onto higher (sustainable) ground before the tsunami hits.

 

 

Roger Hicks

www.spaceship-earth.org