A climate report that we ignore at our peril

Though it does not actually say so, the report of the Committee on Climate Change (Report, 12 July) is a salutary reminder that a capitalist economy based on infinite economic growth, as expressed in terms of consumption-led GDP, is unsustainable and, if allowed to continue in its present form, will ultimately devastate the entire planet.

Moreover, unless we cease using fossil fuels for energy and replace them with renewables at the earliest possible opportunity, the voluntary agreement reached at last year’s COP 21 climate summit to limit increases in global temperatures to less than 2C will be little more than hot air.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/14/a-climate-report-that-we-ignore-at-our-peril (Letters here from Bert Schouwenburg, David Lucas and John Nissen.)