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George Monbiot says that we should be growing food rather than using the land to produce biofuels (Why are we feeding crops to our cars when people are starving?, 30 June). Surely, then, it makes even less sense to put solar panels on land that could be used to grow food, when there are lots of roofs that can be used for them.
Janet Poliakoff
Nottingham
• Mark Wilcox (Letters, 5 July) writes that he is not going to be voting Labour because of Keir Starmer’s speech on Brexit. If we all do that, there will another five years of Tory rule, which would mean 17 years of them running this country into the ground. Polly Toynbee’s advice still holds – hold your nose and vote Labour!
John Richards
Oxford
(SOURCE) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/07/its-absurd-to-fill-fields-with-solar-panels