FRANCIS Ray (SNJ, letters) said that he couldn’t understand why people would support the Green Party, saying that they are “only an indulgence to everyday life”.

I think Francis doesn’t quite get what the issues are.

It’s hardly surprising because the issues that politicians like to discuss are the NHS, how to keep out the immigrants, the deficit, how the middle classes could be made a little richer, etc.

These are the issues which MPs think they can win votes with and these are the issues discussed in the media.

The Green Party has good, progressive, well thought-out policies on all these issues but they are the only party concerned about climate change.

In a month when 2016 has been declared the hottest since measurements began, the Arctic is 20C hotter than normal, and some scientists believe we are at the tipping point of unstoppable global warming, surely the Green Party message is more than just an indulgence.

It’s in nobody’s immediate interests to discuss climate change.

MPs want to be elected, voters don’t want their fossil-fuelled lifestyle to be interfered with, corporations and shareholders will resist anything that might reduce their profits, and anyway nothing meaningful will change unless all big CO2-emitting countries act together.

Like lemmings running towards the precipice, let’s just enjoy the run and not think too much.

I am 59 so I won’t live to see the worst effects of global warming.

It’s the next generations that will suffer, and they will suffer a lot.

The Green Party is the most relevant party right now, and the existential issues they dare to grapple with are anything but an indulgence.

Andy Williams

Chalford Hill