Another quote from Winston Churchill, and this one gives me solace in a weird kind of way:

Christian contributed this today while we contemplated on the spark of activities in environmental conscience measurements since the publication of "Inconvinient Truth" by Al Core.

We were looking back to our lives in Europe and we had a hard time remembering when we actually started recycling and saving fuel and saving energy.... This month being our looking back month it must be at least 25 years now... And then Christian threw in above quote by Winston Churchill. And with the unintentional pun reference to an "exhaust" it made total sense.