I hate to break it to you, but. . .

[MADem]

27. I think that's a worst case scenario.

I think the air is much cleaner than it was in the "acid rain" seventies. I think the water, in Boston Harbor, in the Charles River, and other locations, is much cleaner.

I see more and more of my neighbors buying hybrid cars. Most of my neighbors drive small cars--there's a plumber with a work van, and a family with three kids with a minivan, another family with a teen and a baby with a smaller SUV, another family with a midsized SUV, and one more down the road with a station wagon, but most of my neighbors are in small or mid-sized sedans--and the rich ones, like I said, are driving those hybrids.

I actually know some people who use solar power in their homes to power some stuff--before I only saw it on TV.

Of course, I probably won't live long enough to see all that gloom and doom you are predicting, even though I want to live a good deal many more years, yet.