[joeclarke]

I think I'd be more disturbed that a main-stream paper could be guilty of publishing such an absurd letter.

That man is obviously out to lunch. Any idiot knows that our lifespans are on the increase because of our easy access to guns (protecting us from those bad men) and SUVs (keeping us safe when we bang into things) and because we have liberated the world of Saddam and his WMDs (keeping us safe from the forces of evil). And undoubtedly, GM foods have gone a long way to improving the nourishment of our diets.

I suspect that buring those rainforests is helping somehow too, but I haven't quite figured that one out yet...

But then, I'm not a man of science - so what do I know?