New figures reveal that almost three quarters of British motorists would consider driving an electric car to save the Dartford reed warbler.
Younger motorists are more likely to buy environmentally friendly cars such as electric, hybrid or bio-fuel; 81 per cent of under 25's would contemplate driving an electric car.
This may be due to the associated lower costs of motoring - freedom from high petrol prices, road tax and congestion charges plus access to cut-price parking but in fact is more likely to be that the younger we are the more radically gullible we are.
The over 55's appear more set in their ways, only 66 per cent giving the possibility any thought while sorting through some old gardening jackets or struggling at the urinal to pump personal ship.
This is wholly understandable. The young will worry for worrying's sake if they think their future may be bleak. They have so much left to do, so many snogs unsnogged and sunsets on the beach unwatched. They have yet to leave a mark on the world and when they do they don't want it to be an untimely obituary.
I well remember in the late 70s and early 80s being concerned not just that my future may be bleak but that it may, in fact, not exist at all.
I truly feared that the last TV broadcast I would watch would feature peanut-faced Jimmy Carter and start with the words: "My fellow Americans we stand today on the brink of..." and end with a bright light in the evening sky.
Did my reluctance to die young in a brief exchange of ICBMs stop the over 55s zimmering to the brink of nuclear war? Nah.
Young people, listen up. The oldies have the power. And the toothless get ruthless.
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