Business as usual isn’t an option – we only have one planet | Letters

We've been trashing the planet over recent decades while creating a miserable, insecure society, writes Natalie Bennett. Plus Siin Charnley on the changing language of environmental protest

In Larry Elliott's article (We're back to 1930s politics: anger and, yes, appeasement, 20 December), it is good to see an economics editor addressing, as Kate Raworth has done so effectively with Doughnut Economics, the fact that the economy is a complete subset of the environment. And Elliott is right to say that the official declaration that came out of Katowice was not nearly enough.

But that wasn't the only thing that came from the climate talks. There was a newly prominent place for civil society, from teenager Greta Thunberg to nonagenarian David Attenborough, and some companies, and many state and city governments, stepping up to the plate.

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