Cars not SARS

THE EDITOR: I read in the paper recently that TT has over 2.8 million cars registered on the road. That’s 2.8 units of carbon monoxide, lead spewing weapons of mass destruction circulating throughout our land.

Here’s what we can do to save ourselves. Ride, walk, car pool to work, put unleaded gas in your car even if you’ve been using “super” all your life, switch to CNG (very clean) and don’t buy another diesel truck or van as those things do more damage to humans and the environment than any unused nuclear warhead. Write to the PM and cabinet, EMA etc to ban the use of leaded gas in the country like Barbados has done along with many other progressive countries. Incidentally, I’ve been riding to work these days with a dust/gas mask on and have been getting comments from the public re: SARS, Well it has nothing to do with SARS and everything to do with CARS. Time to live the revolution.

GREGORY SLOANE-SEALE
National Youth Outreach Director, YMCA of Trinidad and Tobago