I have just come across the editorial comment you made on the 18 June on Glenda Jackson's call for people to make less use of their cars. You wrote the following:

"Whatever Miss Jackson says, the reality is that we are going to continue very much as we are. People work and shop and go to school further from home than they used to. That is going to continue and with it our dependence on the car.". . . . "The car is here to stay, because it is - by a long chalk - the most convenient, efficient, economic and comfortable form of transport for most journeys".

Have you understood nothing of the discussions during the last two decades relating to the planet on which we live having limited resources and a finite carrying capacity, and summed up nicely in the
concept of SPACESHIP EARTH?

Even now, with only a small proportion of the planet's population so far motorised, its life support systems are showing signs of becoming overloaded, not to mention the fact that motorisation is consuming huge quantities of non-renewable resources, which even at present consumption
rates cannot go on for very long. Yet there are billions of people, in China and other countries, who are as keen to become dependent on owning their own cars as you obviously are to remain so.

On a planet with finite resources and a limited carrying capacity we have no choice but to fit our life styles to what is sustainable - or perish for our stupidity. There are almost 6 billion people on this
planet and it is simply not possible for us all to have our own cars (or to fly off round the world whenever it takes our fancy, for that matter).  It would be a big help if newspaper editors like yourself would finally wake up to this REALITY and help prepare the ground for the necessary changes, instead of doing the very opposite by encouraging people in their current, non-sustainable and ultimately suicidal life styles.