About the calm and silent Mr Wolf

Sir, walking in the smog of Mexico City, flying over the Amazon jungle and seeing it being deforested in order to grow soybeans for China, and soon perhaps even ethanol for the US, and seeing how the most powerful country in the world still structures its American way of life around the car, is more than enough to know that something is wrong and that something needs to be done. It is then utterly confusing to read Mr Wolf’s “Do we need to cry now that the climate wolf is at the door?”, July 12, that poses such questions as “is the warming itself a bad thing?” and “is there any chance that we will, in practice, find a workable way of dealing with it?” since with these type of doubts he could run the risk of justifying inaction, but perhaps Mr. Wolf suffers from a special phobia against “crying wolf”. Of course, we should be very careful with panicking, and with all those salesmen out there offering lousy escape doors and not really wolf-proof doors, but that does not mean that with respect to the world’s environment, it is not high time to scream out wolf!, at the top of our lungs.

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