George Monbiot is right to warn us about the use of soil and carbon credits as part of “the war against reality” everywhere (Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion, 21 November). He omits, though, the other element essential for life on Earth: water.
Perhaps he has not heard of the latest Cambridge invention: “water credits”. These have been dreamed up by a “water scarcity group” to address the problem that East Anglia, the region chosen by the government for the greatest growth, is the driest in the country. While new reservoirs are proposed, and pipelines to bring water from as far afield as Wales, it is recognised that it will be years before these are functioning. Meanwhile, large-scale proposals for new hotels, retail, offices, and homes for the thousands of people who will come to work in them, sail through the planning system regardless.
