In your editorial on a possible Greek exit from the eurozone, you wrote: "If the theorists are right, the eurozone was built on quicksand from the start" (26 May, p 3). The "if" is superfluous and no "theorists" are needed.
More interesting, from a scientific point of view, is why no serious scientific study has ever been made of the following questions: why do politicians invariably make irrational decisions? Why do we, their notional "masters", tolerate it? What can we do about it?
Such paucity of intellect and seemingly addictive irrationality are bad enough in the current farce of the euro, but when they are brought to bear on serious matters such as climate change, the results could be devastating, not only for us, but for the generations to come.
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