In response to Mrs Wheatcroft (Letters, December 17), blue-tits, robins and blackbirds do not matter one iota.
What is important is there should be adequate and new roads, railways and airports, adequate homes to meet the needs of the homeless, affordable housing and a future with a job for our young people.
I travel the world and it frightens me how fast parts of the world are developing. These countries don't care about blue tits or the environment, the Kyoto agreement or greenhouse gases.
While we listen to environmentalists such as Mrs Wheatcroft, our jobs will move east.
Dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, sabre tooth tigers and thousands of other species died out and we don't miss them. When the friendly robin can find no more food he will settle elsewhere. We can't do that so easily.
If blue tits, robins and blackbirds die out, I won't miss them. I do care if my kids can't get housed and will miss my job if it emigrates to China.
Chris Rackley, Burgess Hill
-Editor's note: Mrs Wheatcroft would like to hear from anyone who shares her views at claire.wheatcroft@btpenwold.com
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