Can I correct Mary Steadman (Time is running out on us', Echo November 24) on her choice of language regarding those who object to the relief road.

In my opinion, a green' person is someone who values their planet and tries to live their life without wastefully using up irreplaceable natural resources.

Objectors' are those who wish to object to something they see as wrong: I suspect Mary herself would be an objector' if someone decided to build a waste-transfer depot or multi-storey car-park outside her Wellington Court window.

Cranks' are those people who, in the eyes of others, take an extreme view. I seem to remember it was cranks' who warned us about the dangers of dumping toxic waste into the sea.

We now know there are dangerous chemical hotspots in many parts of the ocean and in our food chains.

Idealists'" are, in the main, folk who wish to aim for perfection, rather than quick-fix now and hang the consequences.

I would love to be considered a green', to believe I was working towards community conscious ideals' and to be so cranky' that I didn't conform to the all-consuming, self-indulgent, I'm all right jack world in which we live.

I personally wish the road to be built so I can thrash my motorcycle on smooth new tarmac before the oil runs out and we are all forced onto bicycles and donkey. Oh dear, I'm not that green after all.

Robin Maslin, Southcroft Road, Weymouth.