With global warming, we all tend to blame motor transport, heavy industry and agriculture.

The one person we don't tend to blame is ourselves. We all unwittingly contribute to global warming by buying huge amounts of manufactured goods every year.

Most of us have houses full of ‘very handy' gadgets we hardly use (myself included). These gadgets have had to be manufactured, using huge amounts of chemicals, minerals and a great amount of heat and fumes, which go into the atmosphere contributing to global warming.

All of us are getting sucked in by these aggressive advertisements. We must stop and think: Do we really need this new thing?

To save the world's future, we will have to look back to the world of our great grandparents and try to live much simpler lives and use ‘less' of the world's resources to stop the world from cooking.

Ken Jones, Katikati.