Letter: Carbon omission
It is particularly remarkable in its long-term lethal effect on Scotland's largest industry: tourism, based on transport using carbon-rich fuel.
The WWF pincer movement of high fuel costs and a landscape covered in tens of thousands of wind turbines and giant pylons would kill off the allure of the Scottish landscape and the affordability of air, car and bus travel to see it.
Ron Greer
Blair Atholl, Perthshire
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Hide AdYET again Dr Richard Dixon, director of the charity WWF, writes to the press on carbon targets. (Letters, 10 February)
When was it that this wildlife charity changed from its main purpose of protecting flora and fauna to becoming a platform for the renewables industry?
Clark Cross
Springfield Road
Linlithgow
WWF's call for us to institute a trade war with Canada (Letters, 10 February) describes a report disagreeing with the Canadians about what Canadian industry does as "an independent study commissioned by the EU".
Something funded by somebody else, let alone by politicians, is not independent. Perhaps WWF can be forgiven for not knowing this since some of its income comes via government.
Neil Craig
Woodlands Road, Glasgow