Nothing odd about it at all.

It's less about my personal objections, and more about repeated observations of the way things are, as opposed to the way they ought to be.

I live here and know the sort of people who are running the country (firmly into the ground for the foreseeable future). It's all about short term plans to make it look like something is being achieved... same goes for the economy, but that's another story... nobody is looking at the long term view as part of a greater whole.

It's like the beaches here, we have a 'cleanliness' scale thing happening for water quality, pollution, effluent etc. Whilst one beach might have a grade A certificate of cleanliness, if the next beach along the coast has a raw sewage outlet, overall it does very little toward not polluting the sea. Everyone at the A-grade beach can congratulate themselves on a job well done on their teency ikkle bit of sand, which in the grand scheme of things amounts to exactly FA.

Doesn't matter what we stand as proponents of, it has to be everybody doing it together globally or it's not much better than wasting a lot of time and money for nothing. And whilst developing nations are the prime suspects, they're not the only ones to blame... I'm looking at you here America (and the UK too who follow a similar model)... why should a country damage its economy for the sake of some as yet vaguely incontrovertible 'facts' about global warming? Unless it's on your doorstep (bp oil spill anyone?) no-one cares.

For anything to really start to happen, there has to be a fundamental change in science, politics, economics, lobbying, social care, business... The list goes on and on and on. And it must apply broadly to every country in the world, every nation, every community. If none of these things happen we may as well piss into the wind for all the long term difference it will make. Mayhap the pollution of some fancy capital cities might be reduced, but it's just lip-service - everywhere else will continue to be a **** hole.

I'll take my gloom somewhere else for a bit though... :shifty:

sounds like you need to go to the pub, mate

That grading system has very little to do with polluting the sea, its all to do with promoting tourism.
Tater &joegrundman have it pretty much nailed, look how much cities and vehicles have changed in the past 40 years.

As for Top Gears take on this, bad timing as they are being sued by Tesla at the moment.