I write in response to your letter from Chris Menheneott dated July 30, headed ‘Enough is enough’, and should like to raise the following points regarding this correspondence.

Firstly, I should like to challenge the assertion that the proliferation of solar farms is the result of greed. Like all of us, farmers need to make use of their assets, in this case, land.

If the land is unproductive as a result of soil erosion maybe, or the fact that it is now uneconomic to raise dairy cows as a result of the influence of supermarkets, then other sources of income need to be sought.

I contended that this is not greed, but an understandable response to prevailing economic conditions.

Secondly, I, and many others, do of course get into our cars to drive to areas where we can walk and enjoy the countryside. However, I have not so far discovered that solar farms have impeded my ability to either drive or to walk.

We do as a nation, of course, use our cars far more frequently for other leisure and work activities, and this I entirely agree is not environmentally commendable.

Finally, there is, of course, the wider picture. Climate change is happening now and needs to be urgently addressed. Against the understandable wish to enjoy our countryside has to be set the impending catastrophic consequences of not dealing with a warming planet. The consequences of doing nothing are already well documented, but to take just one example, vast areas of the southern hemisphere will become uninhabitable due to floods, hurricanes, droughts and crop failure.

Mass migration to our northern continents will become inevitable. Climate change migrants will join those already escaping war and persecution.

Whilst I understand the concerns of Chris Menheneott, I contend that somehow we in the United Kingdom have to play our part in lessening the impact of climate change.

Until we embrace the innovative projects already underway in other parts of Europe and beyond, such as cycle ways built with solar panels or car parks covered in panels, we shall continue to see landowners using solar panels as an economic solution, a climate change solution or both.

Y A Forsey, Blounts Court, Potterne, Devizes.