I think this guy's going to get pretty sick of peas...

What is people's obsession with sacrificing their health and the health of the planet for every last cent at the supermarket?

:~( Sob...

I don't think that talking is nearly as much distraction as holding a phone - after all, drivers have been talking to their passengers forever. Phone users are a disaster tho - I've seen people drive up on to the curb, and plough straight through pedestrian crossings because they've been on the phone. You just don't do that type of thing when you're driving normally (and if people did then, yes, we would have banned driving a long time ago).

It seems funny that these laws are only coming in now. We had those laws in Australia years ago, although heaps of people still break them.

@CSHOTTEN The funny thing about your post is that it uses the example of the Vikings in Greenland. Their mini civilization collapsed after 300 year (longer than Australia has been inhabited by Europeans). The reasons for its collapse has been attributed to climate change, environmental degradation and their unwillingness to properly adapt to the environment. For example, they kept on eating European-style meats instead of converting to fish like the Inuit. Eventually their lifestyle couldn't be sustained and they all starved to death or were killed by the Inuit.
Now allow me to draw a few parallels between the Vikings and modern day America...

The age of America has come to an end. The Iraq war; public apathy and denial of global warming; and the rise of China and India - all these signal the end of greatness for a nation that once achieved so much in such a short time.