How MUCH Methane does THAT THING Produce???

Just imagine the traffic 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...

What better symbol of our environmental issues than Mammoths... Big Problems need Big Solutions, Right?

Pollution and Sustainability ARE at the top of the I'm very concerned list for most people for several good reasons, some of which are more warranted than others like good old fashioned, don't excrete where you eat pollution.

For certain, our modern, fast moving, fast eating, non fasting consumer culture has gotten slightly out of hand, but we can intelligently slow it down without locking up the brakes. We can steer technology and social awareness without forcing it and we can do most of it through education without overbearing regulations and government intervention that has a notorious history of picking winners and losers and possibly causing all of us to lose.

Necessity is the mother of invention and the devil is in the details, but no matter what we do, panic is still an unnecessary evil. Instilling panic in regard to either our tough loving Mother Earth or our sometimes fragile economy can only cause more confusion causing some misinformed people to think that some other people must have hidden agendas. Therefore everyone has to try and understand the science as best as they can in order to understand the possible harm of not doing anything, and thanks to humans being involved, the definite ramifications 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 and end up in either a legislative tar pit or a puff of cosmic smoke..

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 in need of cool shirts, warm skins and comfortable shoes... and on, obviously too many occasions, would indulge themselves with a pair of mammoth hair Muk Luks. So, In relation to the ongoing debate over 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 that legislative cliff into a corporatist slurry of tar 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...