Fires show danger of scheme

The horrific fires in Greece should be a warning to these "environmentalists" who want to create a joined-up National Forest and carry out the "re-building" of farmland, planting scrub and reducing the stocking rates on mountains and moorland, so as to allow vegetation to grow long - an invitation to every firebug to start a conflagration.

Another disastrous policy, that of growing "biofuels", instead of food, now threatens to cause massive refugee problems across the world, as people flee areas where farmland has been used to placate the idiotic "green" politicians, and oilseed has replaced corn.

But at least this may prevent scrub, because of the need to put every acre under the plough and forget the flora and fauna!

The answers to the looming oil and food crises lie not in trying to grow fuel, but instead to burn rubbish to generate power and gas.

We have enough waste to provide a third of our electricity, if only the stupid idea of expensively "re-cycling" was dropped in favour of gasification of all rubbish.

As usual however, and as in Greece tragically, nothing will be done until a problem becomes an emergency and then a disaster, for lack of common sense, and foresight by governments.

Before the National Forest is planted, lets have a few 300 metre bare firebreaks permanently bulldozed between the trees.

Mr W F Kerswell, Picklescott