I TAKE Mr Rone-Clark's point on the displacement of sea ice, but would point out that my letter was concerned primarily with the melting of the Greenland ice pack and the tundra in northern latitudes.

I am delighted that he says "...we are damaging our climate (and) will pay a heavy price..."

In fact, if you trawl the global warming database you will find that the Tuvalu Islanders, numbering some 11,000 have already asked Australia and New Zealand to accommodate them, because they have given up their battle against rising sea levels.

The Maldives are at risk, as is the fifty-mile wide coastal fringe of Bangladesh, which grows half that country's rice.

Meanwhile the thickness of Arctic oceanic ice has been reduced by nearly half, and 10,000 square kilometres of Antarctic ice shelves have melted.

We can all see our climate has changed, and experts warn that severe changes could occur very rapidly; they refer to it as the climate "flipping." All that begs questions.

If we know that potentially our climate could be wrecked, by global warming, in as shorter time as 20 years, why are the development-mad and growth addicts continuing to make global warming even worse?

Why is every country on the planet planning for more growth, more output, more people, and more of everything?

In our own country, the Government is planning to build millions of houses to accommodate the million people a year that are coming to live here, all of which will add to pollution, and global warming.

To employ those people we will need more jobs, in our economy, which will require more development.

Won't that lead to more new roads, more cars, and more pollution, which will make global warming even worse, year on year, and wreck our climate even quicker?

N TAYLOR,

Worcester.