This suggests that if The Border Mail reports news in relation to the well-established and scientifically valid phenomenon of climate change, it should also give equal column space to the ignorant people who deny that it's happening. For every article that assumes the planet is a sphere there needs to be an argument put that it is flat.

This suggests that evidence, observation and the scientific method don't matter, all opinions are equal when clearly, they are not.

I would rather you stopped publishing the views of climate deniers. Their insistence that there is some kind of active "debate" or that the science isn't settled has held back real action of climate change for decades.

They bear some responsibility for the drought and fires we are now experiencing and unless they want to apologise, I don't think they should be heard.

I have followed the chain of events surrounding the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's plan and outcomes on our rural communities with great trepidation. Is basic common sense now totally extinct? At the behest of the Greens and the South Australian government, huge volumes of prime stored water run to sea, whilst most of the remainder is corralled by financial speculators reaping huge returns by escalating water prices.

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Surely the common-sense factor is, if you don't have food-producing land under the irrigation plan, then you have no entitlement whatsoever to water licences, and even then, food production should be prioritised as to consumption requirements; milk, meat, vegetables and so on. Instead we have distraught and disillusioned food-producing farmers and families denied water and walking off the land, betrayed by this absurd water plan and leaving this region's primary producing industry devastated, including rural communities, which will take decades to recover, if ever. The culminating result, demand and supply dictating prices; milk potentially at $5 per litre, meat and all other locally produced food essentials at greatly increased prices, and that's if you can obtain these Australian products.

This situation would be worse under a Labor/Green Government but the incumbent federal government will suffer a backlash unless all available avenues to reverse this unjust situation are taken. Stupidity and financial greed is championing over national need. You cannot defend the indefensible.

It troubles me when I read semi-illiterate diatribes against people concerned about human-activity-induced eco-problems of a global extent. I am neither left-wing nor a Greenie. I am a simple man who takes in information and draws his own conclusions.

Fear is the manifestation of ignorance, and failure to face the reality of global warming, climate change, over-population, species extinction, ocean acidification, et al, through an ingrained fear of change itself, i.e. right-wing blustering and procrastination, is, arguably and ironically, probably the greatest danger our planet faces today.