Justice needs to be applied to our policies on arms sales to our policies on trade ensuring that we pay
Justice needs to be applied to our policies on arms sales, to our policies on trade ensuring that we pay a fair price for the goods that we enjoy, such as tea and coffee; and justice for the poor needs to become the basis for the policies of the IMF and the World Bank. What we should be seeking, however, in every possible way, is justice. She also warns of applying “Western” values in Africa and other non-Western areas of the world. From Ms Barbara Topp Sir: Your correspondent Rosalind Ingrams (letters, 3 February) suggests that Robert Block’s response to what can be done in Rwanda implies “near-imperial moral duties”.
If not, the opportunity may be lost to provide a safer future for people and a better future for wetland wildlife
Yours faithfully, T S SANDS Director of Conservation Wildlife Trusts Lincoln. If Parliament decrees, the Environmental Bill, which is currently being discussed in the Lords, could require the agencies to carry out integrated catchment management planning. In a year, there will be environment agencies for England and Wales and for Scotland well placed to take a holistic view. We have been trying to forget that river catchments should be thought of as a whole.
Now people are suffering and wetland wildlife has all but disappeared. With land surplus to agricultural requirements, we now have the opportunity to recreate more natural conditions. On the mainland, as in Britain, we have successfully drained our natural bogs which acted as sponges, and engineered away our flood plains which naturally accommodated excess water in the lowlands. Postal votes have to be in by 17 February.Yours faithfully, E A Greaves London, W55 February. From Mr T S. Sands Sir: Tom Wilkie and Steve Connor (“Scientists dismiss link with global warming”, 2 February) highlight the causes of recent flooding in north-west Europe.
