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Letter: Letter

Published 30 November 2002

From Jeremy Matcham

Those “far-out” ideas in your article about curbing global warming already make me feel like we have lost hope – and our sanity. Though the terrestrial environment is becoming more of a risk to our lifestyles, it is still the only environment within which we have a good chance of engineering a solution to our global energy crises.

Without going into the details of how harsh the space environment is and how engineering-intensive these space-based solutions will be, just consider how effective, and comparatively economical, a little education in energy use and global warming would be.

Leicester, UK

Issue no. 2371 published 30 November 2002

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