Re: "Police cutbacks", (BP, April 30).
The picture depicting a police officer getting training in hair styling to supplement her income is a picture perfect example of the elitist delusion that a military junta was required to eliminate corruption.
The police are the ones expected in every society to enforce the laws while acting in a unbiased manner. They are also the ones tasked with exposing and dealing with corruption. When they are paid wages so low that they are encouraged and supported to get another job by their employer, personal financial security then becomes the main focus.
Imagine being hired by a company and within the orientation process you are given training so you can get another job. Not because they care about you, but due to the fact that they do not care enough to properly compensate and pay you for your efforts. Most sane people would quit the job.
Forget about ideals of duty, you get what you pay for in a consumer world. Then add the caveat that the job of policing has the possibility of dying while performing their duties and the current pay disparity becomes more ludicrous. How many truly competent people would even apply for such a job or career?
Darius Hober
State of chaos
Re: "Laughing in 80 years", (PostBag, April 26).
I am not sure how well "A Reader" understood the seasteading report.
The creator's intention was to create an independent state of 20 such structures. Had this been permitted, it is not hard to visualise what would happen in eight, far less in 80 years. That would likely be hundreds of "independent states" with possibly thousands of people living around Thailand's coastline, outside of laws, taxation or control. This would not give us much to laugh about.
The navy's duty is to safeguard our coastline and waterways. In this case they did so correctly, promptly, efficiently and well.
Dusit Thammaraks
Is the end nigh?
In "Mass extinction scorched earth: Global meet to probe UN report", (World, April 29), the principal matter under consideration was the preservation of biodiversity and natural environments. The efforts of the UN to conflate this crucial issue with climate change belies an intentional detour from rational policy based upon data toward support for the agenda of globalist bureaucrats.
A 30-year-long satellite data set gathered by Nasa and published in the journal Nature Climate Change revealed a massive increase in the earth's green cover since 1982, the majority of which is attributable to increased atmospheric CO2.
Yet UN climate alarmists want to eliminate CO2, which will only hasten our demise by limiting plant growth. They advocate this strategy based not upon scientific reason but rather the economic and bureaucratic advantages it affords those who seek to maintain power and control.
Collective fear is a foundational premise of Socialism. Addressing the manifold negative effects of our civilisation upon the earth is of paramount importance, but it should not be conducted by fear-mongering elitists under the facade of climate change reduction.
Solutions which emphasise geoengineering, military-industrial complex interventions and globalist elite control are sure signs that we are headed toward the collapse of civilisation. If, however, our policies afford the greatest benefit to forest dwellers, sea gypsies, small organic farmers, heirloom seed collectors, and mushroom gatherers, then we are on the right track.
Michael Setter
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