SIR — I hear all this talk about the carbon footprint, but I hear no mention of the concrete footprint which is eradicating green fields, nature and our lovely homeland at a suicidal pace, with few politicians caring as they repetitively encourage yet more of the same old chaos.
As I see it, those grooming us to believe that we need to endlessly develop in order to survive are a particular breed who will have their own personal short-term interests at the forefront of their minds, probably involving financial gain, gain in power or their status and image and the offshoots that come with that.
The price our homeland pays in the long term will be secondary.
This country does not need any more people. We do not need to endlessly develop and sacrifice our resources and nature, smothering it evermore with massive ugly industrial units, ghettos of housing and more and more people in order to generate money to live.
We can all live exactly the same as we do now and would not die if we halt population growth forthwith and halt all new development on green fields forthwith, preserving our homeland as a place worth living for centuries to come, leaving a simple priceless legacy.
In a nutshell, the construction industry, developers and planners would still be able to generate their money as they are re-directed into tidying up the many terrible developments already created.
This uncomplicated simple plan would give us a sense of purpose and ray of light that at last we know the vision, the reason, we welcome sanity at last, we'd be proud to uphold it, living unharassed in our chosen environment.
I notice Minehead and Bridgwater are falling victim to the concrete footprint.
Currently we are generating future chaos, not inner peace.
Gerald Bull,
Fouracre Mead,
Bishops Lydeard.