We caused another 2 million tonnes to be emitted outside the ACT in producing electricity for us to use. The inventory does not include emissions we cause through interstate transport, from producing products such as the food, construction materials, vehicles and appliances we consume, or other emissions we cause to occur outside the ACT.

The ACT government plans for those net emissions to grow to about 130 million tonnes by 2044, and to remain at or below that figure from 2045 onwards.

That is what the minister for emissions reductions meant when he said the ACT is on a "journey to zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2045". ("It's time to switch off the gas," canberratimes.com.au, May 6).

RE Bob Douglas (Letters, May 1). I'm approaching 96 and the only thing I regret is regretting I won't be around to see what the weather will be like in 2030 or 2050.

Yes, I will soon be being spoonfed by the most beautiful, caring staff in my current situation, a nursing home. But while I'm blessed with good health compared with those who suffer from various stages of extreme debility, it is for the latter that I have sympathy

To those people who have the intellectual capacity to write letters to the press about the right to decide when to end their life I say: "Do thousands of people in India at the moment have any say about their right to decide when or how they live or die?"

In his desperate efforts to wriggle out of his latest major clanger ScoMo is trying to turn our constitution inside out.

He now says anybody convicted of breaching the Biosecurity Act by trying to come home from India doesn't need worry about going to jail for up to five years or be fined up to $66,600, or both, as the law provides.

It is a judicial officer who decides on the severity of a punishment to be inflicted when somebody is convicted of a crime, not the prime minister. This is called the separation of powers. It is one of the basic principles of our democracy.

While I empathise with the plight of the Australian IPL cricketers, I have no sympathy for the self-inflicted situation they find themselves in.

They went to India, knowing the situation there, for significant personal financial gain, putting this ahead of personal health and safety. Decisions such as these have consequences.

Hopefully lessons will be learned, including that money isn't everything.

I trust the Australian government will insist the cricketers take their place in the queue of Australians in India seeking repatriation and not grant them special consideration.

I'm sure ACT opposition transport spokesman Mark Parton means well, and makes some good points ("Liberals blast ACT govt peak hour plan, May 4, p3).

However, although I am no great fan of the Barr-Rattenbury government, I see some merit in its proposal to spread out peak-hour traffic, shopping and trade. A sprawling city like Canberra should not suffer from fuel-wasting and air-polluting traffic jams - up to a kilometre long on Northbourne Avenue, for example.

Drivers would be less stressed and less accident-prone if peak hour were "peak one-and-a-half to two hours".

Businesses such as coffee shops would appreciate their peak-hour trade being spread out over this time rather than being crammed into 10-20 minutes. Motorists who are more relaxed would be more inclined to spend time shopping rather than continuing their head-long rush home.

Mr Parton should reconsider his opposition to the government's plan.