Sir, - Kevin Myers (An Irishman's Diary, April 3rd) makes a rather dubious assumption that carbon production is proportional to the standard of living. But environmental strategies are good for economic growth. There is a lot of money to be made from energy efficiency and renewable energy. The real point about the Kyoto agreement is that, as the world's most powerful economy, it's time America got off its lazy backside and did something. - Yours, etc.,
Donnacha Gallagher, Beechwood Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin 6.