Dear Editor,
The impression I am getting from the published letters is that the majority of Guyanese have fallen hook, line and sinker for the global warming theory.
The feeling that saving trees and stopping oil exploration would save the planet is preposterous in the light of a multitude of scientific evidence, which says differently. This does not mean that poor environmental standards would not speed up man-kind’s personal destruction but the planet will remain and continue to change regardless of what mankind does or does not do. Guyana is basically at the beginning of its developmental process and is therefore, still too poor a nation to fall prey to developmental policies which may lead to a financial trap.
I remember learning in my ancient history class that the geography of the world was not always what it is today. Over a vast amount of time the world, which was one big mass of land and water, broke up with land bridges and great expanses of land disappearing into the sea while in other places sea beds came up to receive the sun. To stimulate a reality check to identify the changing pattern and complexity of our planet I would like to quote from Michael Crichton.
