Letters: Koutu Rd needs speed humps

SLOW DOWN: Traffic calming measures are needed for Koutu Rd, suggests one reader. Photo/Getty Images

We need traffic to be slowed on Koutu Rd as it gets busier. In particular some speed humps similar to those on Clayton Rd. The road is noticeably busier as Koutu and Kawaha Pt grow in popularity and population. There are many families with young children and pets along this road. Drivers are using it more as a detour to the city to avoid the traffic lights on Fairy Springs and an open road without limit.

JOHN HENRY
Rotorua

Let's just accept, for the sake of argument, that climate change is real.

We find a good prediction in the Christian holy book's 'revelation' (which incidentally supplies most of our vocabulary for the future - 'apocalypse' - for example means 'revelation').

So what? Well, a test for truthfulness is predictions: do the predictions come about?

Revelation describes angels pouring vials of curses on to the Earth in the last days. One of these curses makes the sun really hot, so that it burns many people, that causes them to have boils and they curse God for allowing it. Skin cancer, check.

Another vial curses the seas so that a third of them become sticky and disgusting, with crusts on them, like blood. Pretty accurate picture of many oceans today.

Another angel pours out a vial upon the fresh water springs so that a third become poisonous. Check, a lot of fresh water is contaminated.

Another angel pours out a vial onto the Euphrates river, so that it dries up. Any Google search will tell you that the Euphrates is drying up for the first time in history.

From a 'scientific' perspective, these fulfilled predictions are incredibly specific and refer to things that have never happened before, written by a man who never attended secondary school.

Shouldn't it give us pause, as the bard said?

GJ PHILIP
Rotorua