Letters to the Editor: We have the competence to resolve housing and environmental issues

Ireland's waterways, from Lough Erne to the Blackwater, are being destroyed but there has been ‘no meaningful response’. Stock picture
Living in a post-truth world divided by ever more toxic social media and politics is, we are assured, the challenge of our age.
Really? Surely the sense of powerlessness — a reality rather than a sense — is the greater drain on humanity’s more noble instincts?