Remember the Ozone Layer? How our environmental worries have changed

At the age of 12, while other girls were embracing the onset of womanhood, experimenting with lipstick and getting into boys, I was...writing letters to the people in the future. (In many ways it's not surprising I had a hard time at school!) But it was only last week when I was packing up bits and pieces in my room before moving that I found one particularly amusing and poignant letter I'd written in 1990 -- addressed to myself age 25! I opened it five years too late, but it was intruguing to see what I'd written, particularly the concerns I had about the environment, and the rest is just downright funny.

Follow the jump some selected highlights to spare my blushes!

If my caluclations are correct, you'll be 25 when you open this letter. I don't know how you look, what you do, or what sort of person you are.

Here are some questions I would like to ask if I could speak to you in the future:

- have you had lots of boyfriends?
- Do you drive a car?
- What is the most trendy thing in 2003?
- Is there a cure for AIDS?
- Do you remember being 12?
- are you married?
- Did the disasters that David Icke predicted happen [*LOL*]
- What about the ozone layer?
- do you still have 'green issues'?

Interesting to see how our focus has shifted, but also to remember that issues that once seemed insurmountable can be dealt with through mass lifestyle changes. I would love to go back and talk to my 12-year-old self about how our actions did eventually have an impact on that particular problem.

I'm not, however, going to comment on the answers I'd give to the first question, but can anyone remember exactly what David Ickes predictions even were?

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