LETTER: Sentiment on climate change is shifting

Key points

• A Coffs Harbour resident has threatened to withhold council rates in protest against $2.5 million allocated to climate change initiatives. The letter writer argues the funds are wasted on what they call 'pie-in-the-sky ideology' and claims climate change efforts are ineffective.
• They also criticise carbon credit systems as abstract and unverifiable.
• The council has not yet responded to the letter.