How MUCH Methane does THAT THING Produce???

Just imagine the hazards if the furry proboscideans were still with us roaming free... and imagine a world without Heating Oil?... HOLY Treeless TUNDRA Smart Grid Man!... talk about scorched earth...

I thought about mammoths today for some reason. Big Problems Big Solutions Right?

Pollution and Sustainability ARE major concerns for many people and should be for everyone on this not so big Blue Marble. For certain, our modern, fast moving culture has gotten out of hand, but we can intelligently slow it down without locking up the brakes. We can guide technology without forcing it and we can do most of it through awareness without overbearing regulations that have a chance of picking winners and losers and possibly causing all of us to lose.

Necessity is the mother of invention, but panic is an unnecessary evil. Instilling panic in regard to either Mother Earth or the marketplace can only cause more confusion and some people to think that other people must have hidden agendas. Therefore everyone has to try and understand the science as best as they can, the ramifications of not doing anything, and the possible harm of doing too much. That way we can all help do our part to make sure we don't go off the deep end of either side .

Although modern consuming man is not considered to be very eco freindly, the native Americans are still thought to have lived in harmony with nature. Truth is, they were still worried about cool shirts, warm skins and comfortable shoes... and on occasion would indulge themselves with a pair or two of mammoth hair Muk Luks. So In relation to the ongoing debate of climate change, our own human wants and needs, and our not so fragile eco-system, depending on which side of the last ice age you look at it from, there are things we should control, things we shouldn't, and things we can't. What we CAN control are the people in power proposing drastic things that will rule a significant part of our lives in the coming future. We suggest prudence and plenty of well lit, smoking and non-smoking rooms chock full of ideas, preferably not all at a select group of corporations. We have to get things done but we can't run ourselves over a legislative cliff into a corporatist tar pit either.

“The Stone Age came to an end not for lack of stones, and the oil age will end not for lack of oil.”
... Sheikh Yamani, the former Saudi oil minister and founding architect of OPEC

warm, fuzzy proboscideans...