THE great hydrogen hoax is brilliantly exposed by The Ferret in the Sunday National (‘Corporate con’? Big polluting investors are behind the push for hydrogen heating, Apr 22).

The production of hydrogen gas requires the continued use of fossil fuels, which most intelligent people realise are the main driver towards rendering this planet uninhabitable. Today’s youth have much to lose, but how do they deal with entrenched corporate power? Many of the world’s wealthiest investors are behind this move towards a hydrogen-fuelled economy as they scramble to protect their shares at whatever the cost.

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Could there not be wiser investments? Do they think their portfolio’s role in polluting the planet will have any value “at the end of the road”? Keep right on “the money boys”, but book your seat on Mr Musk’s flight to Mars in good time. Sadly it’s no joke.

Fearing the political attitude north of the Border, dissolve Holyrood – the aim of “fossils” is to prevent Scottish independence at any price.

Iain R Thomson
Strathglass