"there is quite a serious amount of eco-exhaustion building up"

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[Richard] Watson, author of Future File: A History Of The Next 50 Years (Scribe), is a keynote speaker at Designex, the interior design industry's annual trade-only exhibition and seminar series, starting next Thursday. It's where manufacturers and big homewares brands launch their latest products.

This year's exhibition has an eco-conscious mood. Even Jamie Durie is weighing in as an Al Gore-nominated ambassador on global warming, delivering a seminar on climate change and what the design industry can do about it.

Watson, however, remains cynical about our personal commitment to reducing global warming.

"Green is this year's colour," he says. "If I see another carbon neutral cappuccino or beer where trees have been planted to offset emissions ..." He sighs. "I think there's a very strong fashion element to this. And there is quite a serious amount of eco-exhaustion building up.

"What I see is people pulling down houses to build new ones to the very boundaries and putting in enormous amounts of glass and installing massive air conditioners. The average Australian family is getting smaller but the average Australian dwelling is getting bigger and the size of the rooms is going up. At the same time if you look at the airlines only 1 per cent of clients pay for the carbon emissions' offset option [on their airline ticket]."