Putting Out Fires

Dear ‘Burn It’, YOU trash alternative energy sources.

You recommend uranium, oil, AND global warming. You don’t give your name.Any reason for this coyness on your part? Some lobby paying you? Of course it is.I know the tone of your letter.I recognize the voice.I’ve been a journalist for 20 years and this naughty attempt at manipulation on your behalf is just familiar, ineffective and dull.The implication in your letter is that anybody who cares about the future of our planet is a bored leftist housewife who knows nothing about economics.And your comment on “bedraggled parents dropping off their kids in CitiGolfs”? Now that’s just rude! Solar heaters? Mine are fine.Personally I think anybody who writes a letter such as yours to a newspaper without publicly stating name and address is a coward and the anonymity negates the message they are attempting to convey.You may want to burn it.I want to put the fire out.Thankfully a lot of people are starting to feel the same way.Hugh Paxton WindhoekYou don’t give your name.Any reason for this coyness on your part? Some lobby paying you? Of course it is.I know the tone of your letter.I recognize the voice.I’ve been a journalist for 20 years and this naughty attempt at manipulation on your behalf is just familiar, ineffective and dull.The implication in your letter is that anybody who cares about the future of our planet is a bored leftist housewife who knows nothing about economics.And your comment on “bedraggled parents dropping off their kids in CitiGolfs”? Now that’s just rude! Solar heaters? Mine are fine.Personally I think anybody who writes a letter such as yours to a newspaper without publicly stating name and address is a coward and the anonymity negates the message they are attempting to convey.You may want to burn it.I want to put the fire out.Thankfully a lot of people are starting to feel the same way.Hugh Paxton Windhoek