Recovering last night from the shock of going back to work after the Christmas break(!) I happened to watch the Royal Institution's Christmas lectures which, this year, concerned the science of Antarctica.
As ever, I found the programmes fascinating. What particularly caught my mind was one fact which came up towards the end of the last lecture and concerned global sustainability. Not to my surprise, the country which exhibits the least sustainable lifestyle is - drumroll please - the USA. What did rather shock me was the fact that to continue to use natural resources at their current rate, the average American requires FIVE planet Earths, as opposed to the one they actually have.
This can't possibly continue and I don't imagine that it will. What I can't foresee is how this will change, but change it must...