Al Gore has a $30,000 per year electric bill. Jesus!!!! And just how many 60 watt light bulbs does that pay for?

So... the question remains... should we attempt to modify our behavior to alleviate the impacts of the globe potentially warming. 'Sright, Ozme. I'm past caring who's fault it was, or is, or will be. But if it's in our power to do something worthwhile about it at any level - individual to supra-national, then we will be to blame if we fail to do so.

The worst-case scenario is the collapse of civilisation as a result of severe climatic change, at some time in the near future (2nd worst scenario is if it's a long time off). We'll lose everything.

Why not, then, invest some of what we have but don't need into the environment in the hope of averting or reducing the impact? Perhaps we could start by moderating our use of power resources, as Ozme suggests. Perhaps we could share our resources more evenly, so that we don't think in terms of national wealth, but global wealth. Maybe we could help the emergent "locomotive" economies develop cleanly. After all, we will stand to benefit when those economies are pulling ours along with them.

Perhaps we could also stop enveloping everything new we manufacture in useless plastic bubbles.

As for electric/hybrid cars - if Ozme says they're rubbish, then I'll accept his word. So why don't we try walking? We could even use horse and cart a bit more, and use the additional manure to fertilise our vegetable gardens so we eat more fresh food and require less to be proceesed and packaged and transported to Supermarkets ... or am I just letting my imagination run wild now?

TYWD