Dear Editor,

In the latest of a series of praiseworthy editorials,  "Foolishness on Fuel", you criticise the Bush Administration's energy policy. However, the word "foolish" is hardly appropriate. Risking one's own future is foolish. Risking other people's future is criminal. Risking the future of one's own children and descendents is - well, I don't think a word has been coined for that yet.

We are quite literally plundering our planet (i.e. screwing it!). But no one, it seems, is prepared to, or capable of, facing up to it. Least of all, President Bush - despite having children of his own. We were given our first real opportunity to do so back in the early 1970's, when books like "The Limits to Growth" were published; but instead, massive (mainly economic) self-interest in the status quo caused us to go into collective denial - which is where we still are, as catastrophe looms ever larger.