WOW! I think we should have enormous gratitude. I was in despair over the Ice House. Until we discovered that by burning a little hydrocarbon we could dominate The Ice, you have to admit Man's future was bleak. By a lucky break civilization developed in one of the tiny respites inside 30 million years of utter cold. This split second is called The Holocene and it is now 13,000 years old. The Ice is due to return any time. I had no hope whatsoever we could stop it from covering the North down to Chicago with a mile of ice. Now I know Man is powerful, triumphant and heroic: We can stop the Ice Ages!

Well, if it is it will certainly make the world a lot poorer, as with less people buying stuff, there will be less manufacturing, less workers needed, more unemployment etc…

Also interesting that Renee M is advocating population control, dictating what people eat, when they go to sleep, how we must get to work… my what an orwellian future we have coming, I hope I don't live to see the world turn into Renee's vision of the future.

We can walk rather than drive. We can limit the amount of stuff we buy, choosing instead to reuse what we already have, to make do, to do with less, to be HAPPY with what we already have. We can eat responsibly (organic, local, less meat, etc.). We can have less children. We can teach our children to conserve. We can use solar power. We can hang our clothes on a line. We can go to bed earlier, removing the need to light up our lives until midnight. We can recycle. We can compost. There is so much that WE can do.

If we wait for a handful of people to solve 6 billion people's problems, we will have a hand in whatever horrible fate awaits us. let's have a hand in a hopeful fate instead!