Sea walls not the answer to global warming

YOUR columnist Steven King derides Eamon Ryan TD for warning that we face dire results of climate change (Irish Examiner, November 8). Mr King implies that the Green deputy is an eco-fundamentalist and that such people are brainwashed.

Mr King’s wonderful idea is to forget about limiting greenhouse gases and spend billions on coastal defences.

This puts the burden entirely on the taxpayer and future generations who will just have to keep building sea walls.