Letters: decarbonisation is futile

What’s the point?

Sir: Your editorial (‘Net loss’, 2 March) sets out how the decarbonisation industry is a net drain on the British economy. While you mention that the UK has already decarbonised faster than any other European country, the fact that the UK produces less than 1 per cent of global carbon emissions to start with means that even if we became carbon neutral overnight, it would have precisely no impact on global climate change. So the 765,000 people working in that sector are not only taking skilled labour away from sectors that are actually economically productive, but they are on a hiding to virtue-signalling nothing. They might as well be digging holes and filling them in again.

Lewis Feilder

London SW6

The taste of Mayo

Sir: Lord Sumption, in his review of Remembering Peasants (Books, 24 February), asserts that ‘modern Ireland is immeasurably happier for having confined its peasants to museums’. My mother would disagree.