Trickle-down Truss and the wealth creation myth | Letters

The social and environmental costs of wealth creation are becoming impossible to ignore, writes Jeremy Brettingham, while Barbara Williams says the key to our survival is not money but healthy ecosystems. Plus letters from Alan Knight and Damian Grant

George Monbiot calls for inspiring alternatives to the current disastrous ideology (Trussonomics is a fanatical, fantastical creed, and the last thing Britain needs, 17 September). A good place to start might be to finally dispel the convenient myth that amassing a lot of money is the same as creating wealth. To make" lots of money basically involves taking bits of money from lots of other people, by fair means or foul.

Wealth, on the other hand, is at its root created" by using the resources of the Earth - whether that be the soil, plants, trees, water, rare minerals or hydrocarbons - and combining that with leveraging the differences in socioeconomic expectations between different social groups/countries.