From Philip Bolt
Fiona Reynolds asserts that if the UK “hadn’t been in the EU for the past 40-odd years it wouldn’t have the cleaner beaches and rivers, safeguarded landscapes and less polluted air enjoyed today” (27 February, p 30). Perhaps so – or perhaps we’d have even better protection of natural resources.
Reynolds makes no mention of international agreements such as TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between and . This would give multinational corporations new rights to take legal action against governments whose policies they disliked – and we know how keen most of these firms are on environmental protection.
We may at the moment have an anti-scientific government that is incapable of recognising evidence when it sees it, but this will not always be the case.
Kirriemuir, Angus, UK
