I HAVE said before that many of us are “bonkers” for failing to take the problem of climate change seriously and making an enormous fuss about the very small visual threat of the Navitus Bay Windfarm.

Tony Trent’s letter (June 12) concerning the very real dangers of fracking simply emphasises how we have got things out of proportion. Fracking of the oil fields under the Purbecks, the Jurassic Coast and Poole Bay actually does threaten our locality with real dangers – of water pollution and destabilised land.

What are the chances of more major landslips of the highly-unstable Jurassic Coast? Further, these desperate attempts to drain more and more fossil fuels from under the ground make climate change worse while wind energy has a very small carbon cost.

TONY HAMILTON, Acting Chairman of Poole Agenda 21