D Tuesday, December 22, 2009 METRO 19 Q13: What is the name of Russell Brands cat? P22 Wall and piece: A new Banksy piece has appeared near the Oval Bridge in Camden Town, north London. The image is one of four new stencils by the elusive street artist which have appeared along the Regents Canal The Big Picture A waste of money Incinerator: Paid for by whom? Reducing carbon emissions is the reason more than 130 world leaders made the journey to Copenhagen. Burning waste instead of recycling it increases carbon emissions, and work has now started on an incinerator in Dublin which is planned to have double the capacity thats needed. So who is going to pay for the emissions caused by burning waste instead of recycling it? It wont be the promoters of the project! It is also proposed to build another incinerator, this time on a flood- prone Cork site which spent part of late November under water. If a future flood spreads pollution around Cork city, who will pay for the clean-up? If the flooding of late November shows anything, it is that the cost of bad planning is borne by ordinary people while there is no recourse against project promoters and administrators who facilitate ill- considered proposals. James Nix, Irish Environmental Network The Copenhagen agreement is a long-term disaster that will resonate until we adopt a new economic model for the world but probably too late. Indeed, it is the political leaders and their masters, the great business/ industrial powers, who will not change the status quo owing to their self-interest and national greed. Not until we have political and industrial leaders who understand clearly that our economic model is what is wrong, the world will continue towards a level where economic livelihoods and sustainable outcomes become irreversible. Dublins best-read letters page Metro Mail E-mail letters to mail@metroireland.ie with a name. Or text us. Text MAIL followed by comment and name to 53131. *Texts cost 30cent per message + standard network charges. SP. Oxygen8 Communications, Hospitality House, Cumberland Street South, D2. Customer service number 0818286606 talk to us Festive spirit: Thanks a million to the young man who changed our flat tyre outside Donaghmede Shopping Centre on Saturday. Hope Santa is good to you! Alison Well done: I just want to say a big well done to all the retail staff who are working over the Christmas holidays and who, like me, only have two days off. All those staff who normally face abuse by fussy and demanding customers when they should be home with friends and family, you are doing your country proud! Happy Christmas! Busy Sln: Seeing as we will be saying goodbye to the old Metro and welcoming the new Metro Herald very shortly, I would like to say that I have greatly enjoyed the Metro over the last few years, especially the letters page as well as the This Life and Nemi cartoons, which always brighten up my daily tea break. I hope that these aforementioned features of Metro will be included in the new Metro Herald. Mark Chuckles: I will definitely miss all the groan-worthy jokes and humour in the letters page. Long live Metro Mail! AJ In Brief Indeed, it will be then that their mutual destruction will also come to pass. Then the human race will enter years of global wars to survive over the acquisition of scarce natural minerals and resources for their nations personal self-preservation. Then the penny might drop, but it will be far too late by then to reverse events. The Copenhagen agreement should have brought about a total reduction in temperatures over the long-term, with the finances found in order that a balance in the inequalities between developed and developing nations were solved. The costs for not doing so will inevitably be far, far greater. We have lost a golden chance to stop the critical decline in the human experience, and our leaders are still blind to what is really upon the horizon for humanity this very century. This is the defining century as to whether humans as a species will live on or die. Dr David Hill, World Innovation Foundation Charity Sendusyour txt Im really not surprised that the RT Guide mixed up TV3s and ITVs schedules, TV3 shows nothing but ITV programmes every night anyway! Daragh, Rathfarnham Reading the Metro as I sit on the metal chairs at Connolly Station, I just realised my ass is numb. From now on, I am bringing a cushion! Datalore Angry Anderson, I too agree with you. Though I am only a student myself, I cannot stand the blaring of awful dance music in the morning on the bus. Invest in headphones! An Fair play to my Metro man at the top of OConnell Street, he always makes me smile! Lady with the pink earphones Everyone seems angry about something these days. Cheer up, its likely to be a white Christmas for once! Alan I see there was a fire at Guinness, I hope they didnt use any stout to put it out! Hic Why was Santas little helper depressed? Because he had low elf esteem... Stafro txt MAIL to 53131* Picture: PA index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html