From PATRICK CAMPBELL
I was astonished to read some remarks of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
to the Royal Society (This Week, 31 March), that ‘we have to rely on advances
in genetics to enable us to engineer the necessary changes’ to save European
nature reserves from the effects of rapid global warming. Is this how she
justifies her government’s sluggish record in reducing greenhouse emissions?
Does she expect the global ecosystem to be similarly saved? I see a parallel
in her attitude: her peers in the early years of atomic power expected modern
science to develop reliable methods of radioactive waste disposal, as well
as a meterless source of energy.
Patrick Campbell Bondi, Australia
