Your warning on the disaster that climate change could bring if we don’t reduce our use of resources (Wraparound of main section, 7 March) comes in an edition that comprises 118 Berliner-size pages, a fashion magazine, a television guide, a general magazine, a cookery supplement, five advertising supplements, four advertising flyers and a plastic bag. Need one say more?
Gerrard Raven
Teddington, Middlesex
• Three cheers for Alan Rusbridger’s valedictory initiative to wrap the Guardian in the compelling narrative of climate-change action. The exhortation to other organisations to desist from fossil-fuel use is duly noted. So when will the Guardian discontinue full-page colour advertisements for carbon-intensive luxuries, such as gas-guzzling status cars, business-class air travel in petro-state-owned airlines, and extravagant international holidays? Or is the whole business less black-and-white than the ink on your page suggests? What if we focus instead on addressing the huge gaps in current engineering capability to deliver the needed change?
Paul Younger
Professor of energy engineering, University of Glasgow
