From reading this article (Warm core: The humble fleece undergoes a high fashion makeover, 16 February), it seems we won’t be giving up the “humble fleece” any time soon, despite knowing that its fabric is environmentally destructive. How are we ever going to give up any of the dozens of other destructive things that we humans do to the planet? We need to develop a serious plan and soon, or we’ll truly be the agents of our own demise.
Sheena Howarth
Worcester
• Can we now look forward to the Guardian cutting down on its obsession with promoting the latest in fashions (Worn again! Could you give up buying new clothes, G2, 19 February)?
Ian Butterworth
South Croydon, London
• Surely Gavin Williamson can send a gunboat to the western Pacific to force China and Japan to trade on our terms (Letter almost scuppered trade talks, 19 February)? After all, it worked in the 19th century and that seems to be where he and his Brexiteer colleagues are headed.
Keith Mason
London
• If President Maduro is to be removed because, according to his would-be usurper, he is “utterly detached from reality” (Change is irreversible, insists Venezuela’s rival president as Maduro clings to power, 16 February), should Donald Trump be far behind?
Robin Wendt
Chester
• I cannot understand why Devon and Cornwall are fighting over scones (Letters, 19 February), when Scotland is obviously the arbiter of all things scone-related. Scots invented them, originally cooking them on a griddle.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
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