Massive wind and solar farms linked by new transmission lines are being pushed in native species habitat as we head towards a net-zero world. The vast majority of energy is consumed in cities,yet 70 per cent of Australian rooftops don’t have solar yet. Make energy where it is used. Do this by providing access to green funds for citizens to install solar and to electrify their households. This would limit the need to impact rural communities and speed up the transition to net-zero with people power.David Sargent,Tennyson (SA)
Can we accept that local opposition to new transmission lines will thwart our transition to renewables?Supplied
Can we just accept that local opposition to new transmission lines will thwart our transition to renewables and look at an alternative which is achievable without environmental impacts – let’s go underground. I’ve heard politicians in the past saying it is too expensive but that is rubbish when you compare it with the cost of not transitioning to renewables. Just get on with it.James Elliott,Balmain
Why not provide free rooftop panels to households to form solar “hubs” in city and regional areas to save habitats and to stop annoying farmers? Could degraded farmland for turbines be another option?Margaret Wilkie,Peregian Beach (Qld)
Cancelled out
The conservative ideology that Parnell Palme McGuinness truly represents is the ultimate example of her very own definition of “cancel culture” (“”,April 7). The conservative minority in this country would,if allowed,restrict or remove any possibility that a progressive idea might change society for the better. Their dogma would have only the wealthy and self-sufficient be able to access affordable education,health,housing and services. The vitriol and intensity of criticism of any progressive idea (such as the Voice or the new governor-general) clearly demonstrate the hypocrisy of their hysteria about cancel culture. If McGuinness and her ilk had their ways all forward-looking or enlightened ideas would be removed from our thoughts,thus achieving the ultimate in cancellation.Tony Heathwood,Kiama Downs
What rush of blood to the head led McGuinness to compare J. K. Rowling to Alexei Navalny? Instead of lauding Rowling,and by extension herself,as heroic truth-tellers,McGuinness should reflect on how political detention and murder really compare with tiresome cultural battles fought by famous novelists or Sunday paper columnists.Colin Stokes,Camperdown
Tortured pedants
The purpose of the apostrophe is to make the meaning clear (“”,April 7). If the pedant’s (sic) can tell you where the apostrophe should have been,the meaning must have been clear,and the apostrophe is otiose.Jock Brodie,Port Macquarie
Kennedy factor
If all Robert F. Kennedy does,when it comes to the presidential nominations is to grab some of the votes that would otherwise go to Trump,it will be a worthwhile exercise (“”,April 7). Bearing the Kennedy name and the mystique that goes with it is a great start.Joan Brown,Orange
Powerful argument
Your correspondent is quite correct about the criminal enterprises which supply illegal recreational drugs enforcing their “contracts” by violence (Letters,April 7). They employ similarly brutal methods in competing with other suppliers and often move on to other criminal activities. A powerful argument for decriminalisation (or even legalisation) of all such drugs under strict regulations.Al Svirskis,Mount Druitt
Hidden problem
The problem diagnosing students for cognitive and social-emotional disabilities across the state in public schools often lies hidden in the inability to access and fund the initial diagnosis (“”,April 7). In many areas across the state,access to doctors and other specialists is restrictive,costly and very difficult for the families of the ill-informed. It is here where further funding and assistance is needed to enable families to access diagnosis appropriately,as do those in the better-informed affluent areas.Janice Creenaune,Austinmer