AS our young people engage with the democratic process and we scrutinise manifestos we all need to ask some searching questions over safety.

Obama warns of the over-riding challenge of a climate becoming less friendly to humans and the Pentagon suggests that US National Security is at risk.

Questions were asked recently at Boscombe Forum and there is a need to hear of a more robust programme to protect all citizens.

Global Divestment Day on February 13/14 asks the banks and corporations to shift to safer fuel supplies.

Perhaps we can all ask for clean fuel generation from those who supply us with services (eg. pensions), especially as, worldwide, dirtier fuels cost us more. They are subsidised six times more than renewables and invite expensive damage from floods, droughts and fires.

As Lord Stern said, “climate change is a market failure”.

SUSAN CHAPMAN, Parkwood Road, Southbourne