LET nature take its course, was advice that we would once have heeded. Now, the scientists take over with genetic engineering. Are the scientists cleverer than nature?

We only have to read the latest reports on the thinning of the ozone layer over our own country, to understand that they are not. We were creating this problem without ever knowing it.

F BILLINGTON (Mr), East Crescent, Accrington.

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