h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Just for a moment imagine, if you will, a future where everybody has a motorized scooter. London, far from being a car crash away from total gridlock as it is now, would be full of bustling streets, with people buzzing up and down the roads in their thousands. The only large vehicles would be the (now incredibly well funded) buses, and the occasional car full of school children. Road rage would be virtually non-existent, since being angry at someone from behind a windscreen is much easier than someone who is practically a pedestrian on wheels. Emissions would be cut in half and oil would last a few more decades before completely drying up."

Well... maybe. My only problem with the conclusion of this paragraph is that aeroplanes and boats / ferries are the biggest oil consumers / emitters by a long way.

Some oil companies would also argue that oil is not going to run out in the next few decades whatever happens. Whether they are right remains to be seen.

I also think you'll find that most scientists who are "in the know" about climate change would challenge the whole "global warming" debate, since apparently the Earth is supposed to be warming up anyway and this "hole" in the ozone layer is not causing as many problems as first reported.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't be more environmentally friendly - clearly it's a good idea - but that we should be careful about what we say is and is not environmentally friendly.

me[Andy]g