16th Januar y 2007

Dear Sir

Letter writers V Malone and Andrew Wallis ("modern city like Sheffield needs an airport to survive" The Star January 13th) say that those who reject an Airport in Sheffield are foolish and will make the city the laughing stock of the world.

What is more foolish? To ignore the fact that the airline industry is the fastest growing contributor to climate change and continue to base the survival of our economy on rapidly depleting fossil fuels? Or take the global emergency of climate change and looming fossil fuel scarcity seriously by investing in a more self-reliant regional economy where the need to transport goods, that could be made on our doorstep, is no longer necessary?

Which one of these options is going to ensure Sheffield is a city with a secure future?

Cllr Bernard Little
Sheffield Green Party