Sir – Michael Tyce and Suzanne McIvor (Letters, August 27) need to get their priorities straight. Scientists tell us that if we are going to limit the global mean temperature rise to 2C and prevent dangerous climate change, world carbon emissions must start falling within the next six years. So we all have to say yes to decisive, immediate action.

Change must happen at all levels — individual and family, our community and city, our nation and internationally.

Wind energy for Oxford can be part of this change. Britain is the windiest country in Europe — yet we generate little electricity from wind. Germany, by comparison, has one of the worst wind resources on the continent but currently manages to produce ten times more energy from wind than Britain. A report published in July by the National Grid came to the conclusion that intermittency is not a problem for wind power, and that large-scale deployment of wind energy does away with the problems of variable wind.

During its first year of operation, our ‘local’ wind farm at Westmill (near Swindon) produced clean and renewable electricity every day, totaling 11.5GWh, within five per cent of the predicted output of 12GWh.

So I welcome the city council’s proposals for wind turbines in our community. We need to do this for the sake of our grandchildren.

Mary Gill, Oxford