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Letter to: Charles Clover. The Daily Telegraph. 1 Canada Square. London E14 5DT.

18 May 2006

A better option than Nuclear Energy

Dear Mr Clover

In your well considered analytical appraisal, of Labour's intention to go for nuclear energy as its favoured option, you mention the need to limit air travel. But consider for a moment the billions of pounds spent on the promotion of travel, and for regarding tourism as a rational and essential industry, even though travel is probably the most intractable source of CO2 emissions.

Surely our main consideration when trying to tackle global-warming, should be the idea of changing our lifestyle. Better by far, for the citizen, for each and everyone of us, to be taking our own initiative on deciding to improve the quality of our lives. Such as leaving the rat race and returning to a folk style economy, where microgeneration of energy comes into its own.

Under existing global economics, that is impossible and is not an option. But I know human beings well enough as a family doctor, that if such an option was made attainable, it would be the lifestyle we should prefer.

What is important to make known, is that this very different life style, is readily available, if the will to achieve it came into existence. It only involves a very slight change in the law, to which nobody will object and that is, to restore to our Government, its very ancient privilege of creating and issuing new money. At present we are forced to borrow new money, into existence, when new money is needed.

Our Government allows private banks to create new money and issue it as credit. As a result we attempt to use debt as our currency. We can only survive, by waging a commercial war, a war in which fair trading is impossible.

The resulting rat race is destroying the planet and will eventually exterminate life on this planet. You could use the threat of nuclear energy to wake us up and see the truth of these statements. You would enable us to so improve the quality of our lives, we should never again sit in a gridlock and never again be herded like cattle unto a flying bus at an airport.

To stop all that, what we have to do is make sure people really understand that new money is needed all the time for prosperity to flourish and new money must be issued by the Government, not issued as a source of profit by private banks, otherwise our ultimate survival will not be possible.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB