Qualmy, queasy and querulous understate the quandaries I’m currently feeling. Possibly destined to become one of Great Britain’s 14,000 centenarians ought to be a privilege but I may depart with our world in its worst mess since World War II.

Market greed and selfishness has us on the brink of disaster. We have a world order created to serve the global plutocracy.

From space the Earth is a beautiful blue planet, the epitome of fragility in an infinite universe. At ground zero, humanity is a ragtag mass of confusion on an increasingly polluted, depleted, oblate sphere.

The filth on the green lawns and hedgerows of Swindon are the signs of a careless society. Thoughtless minorities can easily drift into thoughtless majorities.

I am minded of the closure of Eldene Co-operative at the expenses of a Morrisons megastore. Size trumps convenience and the intimate touch.

A Reeves, Okus Road, Swindon