Well, I say we should abolish newspapers - they are not needed at all, agreed?
For sure not, there are things we don't really need, but they have to be there or it would leave a terrible hole, and I think motorsport is one of it - like computer games, what do u think just the existance of LfS consumes on resources (the power needed to run your PC - having a short look at LfSW I assume it is as 600 PC are on 24/7, this is ca 300000 kW/h every day)
And well, I've seen a report on TV where they have had a closer look on the ice in polar regions and they found out there were always times with higher CO2 values (up to 10 times of todays) and there were always periods where it was much hotter on earth. The most intriguing thing was that the global warming always comes short before the raise of CO2, so the warming could be a natural phenomenom that causes the CO2 raise...