IT is probable that the burning of fossil fuels has contributed to climate change (The Press, February 12).

This small country – Britain, has done more than many other countries to promote green energy production, at a heavy cost to the general public by their enforced contribution in the subsidies to the energy suppliers in their attempts to go green – with some success.

However, China, with a population of billions, and who build several coal fired power stations per week for their huge industries, many using Victorian methods of energy use, produce enormous amounts of air pollution.

Similarly India, with a huge industrial base much still a Victorian level and producing energy in a similar manner to China, is creating large amounts of pollution.

Conclusion: both countries and probably others completely negate any reduction in pollution of the atmosphere this country may have achieved, at a large increase in our cost of living.

J Beisly, Osprey Close, York.