The quickest way to rescue Brazilian Amazonia is to impeach Jair Bolsonaro, preferably well before Cop26 in November, and restore the law and order and environmental controls he has trashed (Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs, 14 July). But customers of soya, beef and timber outside Brazil must boycott products from the region too.
Richard Bourne
Author, Assault on the Amazon
• How can Boris Johnson promote his “levelling up” agenda (PM attempts to reassure southern MPs over ‘levelling up’, 14 July) when he intends to remove the universal credit uplift this autumn? Are the most vulnerable in our society not included in this levelling-up policy?
Carolyn J Sutton
Glastonbury, Somerset
• In my advertising career in the 1980s, I left a message for the Guardian’s media sales manager. He was told to call Man the Lifeboat and phoned me back immediately. I was more often mistakenly known as Amber Litho (Letters, 14 July).
Anne Bolitho
Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire
• Marina Hyde (13 July) states that the government does not “grow” as a set of players do. This is because a football team is chosen on skills, ability and teamwork. Government ministers are not.
Mark Lyall
North Cadbury, Somerset
• Could the PM and his cabinet be launched into orbit indefinitely with Joe Oldaker’s trio (Letters, 13 July)? Surely the perfect solution.
Jan Mortimer
Lewes, East Sussex
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