Destiny

I've been reading "Heat" by George Monbiot. In chapter 8 he has a great quote from Russian journalist Ila Ehrenburg. In 1929 he said of the automobile...

"It can't be blamed for anything. Its conscience is as clear as Monsieur Citroen's conscience. It only fulfils its destiny: it is destined to wipe out the world."

And he wrote this before the days of SUVs, multi-storey carparks and 12-lane highways. Decades before we understood the impacts of climate change, or depleting non-renewable resources.