My ‘Top Gear’ magazine dropped through the mailbox yesterday. Trouble is, I’ve realized that I’m not interested in the feature article on the cover. It’s about a test of supercars, including the Bugatti Veyron, in one of the Gulf states.
And why am I not interested? Because I’ve just been watching the eco-movie HOME. It’s beautifully filmed in High Definition and it has an important message.
For millions of years, the Earth has been storing up the carbon that threatens the planet’s survival. Over the last fifty years in particular, human beings have been extremely efficient at releasing it to power their lifestyles. And now the planet can’t cope any more.
It made me think how irrelevant many things in modern western life are, including supercars. The Veyron is an engineering masterpiece. It took a great deal of time and money to produce a car as fast as a Formula 1 car that can also be used on the road. That’s actually quite a technological achievement. But why couldn’t Ferdinand Piech, the then head of VAG, have turned his talented engineers loose on a more environmentally-useful project?
We’re destroying this planet faster than it can renew itself. People are busily fighting wars with each other, but climate change could kill us all unless we unite to deal with it.
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