The long read (Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way, 13 June) does a disservice to the Environment Agency’s dedicated and loyal but underpaid staff that I represent. Although it is a category one responder – equivalent to the emergency services – its incident response services are woefully underfunded, relying on depleted volunteers. To safeguard its future, we need to see commitments for increased resourcing, continued independence and a reversal of the recruitment and retention crisis.
Sue Ferns
Senior deputy general secretary, Prospect union
• Zoe Williams writes: “This should be the climate crisis election ... Instead, we’re in fantasyland” (G2, 18 June). Indeed it should, and can, be. This Saturday, Extinction Rebellion will be in central London – with all the flair, intelligence and fun the public has come to expect – to ensure that what follows is a climate election. Get there if you can. If not, join your local XR branch and help turn dream into reality.
Caroline Roaf
Oxford
• It says a great deal about the state of the world that the G7 agreed to send $50bn to help Ukraine protect itself from Russian aggression (Report, 13 June) on the same day that an already unbelievably wealthy man was given almost the same sum for a year’s work (Tesla shareholders approve CEO Elon Musk’s $45bn pay package, 13 June).
Adrian Riley
Sheffield
• Haven’t we suffered enough? The Bookseller has announced that HarperCollins is to issue Boris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, in October. Unhinged, more like.
Gill Jackson
Etchingham, East Sussex
• How ironic that the front-page picture in Wednesday’s Guardian print edition featured Rishi Sunak in a small boat, hoping to secure a better future.
Gary McGregor
Garvald, East Lothian
• Do you have a photograph you’d like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers’ best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays.
