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Tree planters don’t get climate crisis

I had to sympathise with farmers such as Ian and Rhiannon O’Connor in your feature last week about Britain’s farms being devastated by corporate giants covering up their carbon footprint by planting millions of trees in fields grazed by sheep.

I’m all for planting trees to help with climate change, but these big companies simply don’t get it. We are all supposed to cut carbon and greenhouse emissions, but we’re not supposed to do this while continuing to behave as before by jet-setting and polluting our environment.

Firstly, the surviving trees planted today won’t help with global warming for at least

15 to 20 years and, secondly, farmland is being used up at an alarming rate, reducing our capacity to grow our own food, despite having prime conditions in this country to do so. The Government must step in to ensure there is a plan to carefully balance land allocation to meet our future needs, because at the moment we are heading for a self-made apocalypse.

Airlines, big firms and rich individuals really need to understand climate change and the part they play in it.

Stasha Martin, East Preston, West Sussex

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