There's no doubt that we have to learn to live more environmentally friendly. We consume more per capita in the US by far. Perhaps if they let the price of energy reflect it's true value we'd learn to conserve more.

Tree huggers are kinda a sore spot out here. Was that nitwit Tre Arrow on the news last summer? He parked himself on a ledge of a building here and made a total fool of himself, and the rest of the tree-huggers. I wish there was a better way to get a point across, but like someone else posted, most people tune it out unless it's in thier face. Environmentalism is a tough issue, for sure.
They are talking rolling blackouts or kill the salmon this summer in Oregon. They think kill the fish, but I'd rather have the blackouts myself.

: Actually, that 700 million is in the US alone (current pop ~280 million),
: there are somewhere in the order of 6000 000 000 people living in the
: world today.

: What the tree huggers are worried about isn't necessarily the loss of a
: species or two, it's when you've lost so many species that the ecosystem
: can no longer sustain itself and the whole thing comes tumbling down.

: I read something about this in the paper the other day. They were saying that
: if an aircraft loses a rivet, that's no big deal. If it loses a few more,
: then thats probably ok too. But, if you lose so many rivets that the wings
: fall off, then you've got a problem. The Tree Huggers are worried we'll
: lose so many species that the wings will fall off the whole shebang.

: They are probably right, it would be helpful if they were a little less
: fanatical though (at least the ones down here in Australia, they're
: usually well intentioned and ill informed).

: Cheers,

: Paul L.