MIKE Fry (‘Time to stop birds’ decline’, Letters, November 17) expresses concern over the plummeting numbers of migratory birds but nowhere mentions the RSPB’s report warning that climate change is the greatest long-term threat to people and wildlife. Senior doctors and academics have urged divestment from fossil fuels; the British Medical Journal has declared climate change a public health emergency.

What a pity that government policy backs out-dated high-carbon gas power stations and expensive nuclear while slashing support for cheaper, more popular solar and wind. The World Energy Council’s annual Trilemma Index has downgraded the UK’s rating for energy and climate policies from AAA to AAB. And why are we still subsidising fossil fuels to the tune of £26 billion according to the IMF? In 2013 the UK gave 300 times more to planet-unfriendly energy than to renewables.

I’d like that part of my taxes back please. Are we being mis-sold dangerous energy? All our children deserve protective zero-carbon investments in their increasingly precarious future.

Susan Chapman

Parkwood Road, Southbourne