Our own Keith has once again written a very interestesting article on his other home the earth blog, check it out and find out for yourself exactly what is the problem with being normal?

A normal person in the USA consumes at least twice as much energy and materials, and drives over 3 times as far as a normal person in the United Kingdom. Figures for most of western Europe are about the same as for the UK; figures for Canada and Australia are about the same as those for the USA. So, depending on where you live, how normal do you feel now?

And don’t forget we all live on planet Earth, along with about 6.5 billion others. We are all human, and a normal human being consumes just 4.6 barrels of oil, 433 cubic metres of natural gas, and 900kg of coal.

In fact, based on the energy output of these three fuels, a normal member of the human race consumes just one fifth the fossil fuel energy of the normal USA citizen. Now do you feel normal?

Read the rest of it here.