Sir, – It is reassuring that “high-profile members of the Irish Academy of Engineering have distanced themselves from the organisation’s call for Ireland to revert to burning coal to generate electricity” (“Members distance themselves from engineer body’s call to burn coal for electricity”, Climate Crisis, May 18th).The attitude that regardless of what Ireland might achieve in reducing GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions, it will have no impact on the country’s climate is a myopic, solipsistic, not to mention morally bankrupt, way of looking at the situation.All the small countries of the world combined are responsible for around a third of the world’s GHG emissions, comparable to China’s share.If they all adopted this attitude, it would certainly have an adverse impact on all their climates, with all that would bring, especially for the poorest people around the world.What if China, then, being also “only” responsible for around a third of the world’s GHG emissions or only 9.9 tonnes of CO2 equivalents per capita, then adopted the same attitude?What if the US and all the rest adopted this attitude too?Thinking like this is a recipe for planetary disaster which would affect every single country in the world.– Yours, etc,ROB SADLIER,Rathfarnham,Dublin 16.