Jack wrote:
As long as we insist on being warm in the winter and also believe that
the earth can sustain increasing billions of human inhabitants the
problem will continue to grow -- only the rate might be changed
imperceptibly by anything we may try to do about it. It makes no sense
at all for 300,000,000 Americans to become tree-huggers if 5,000,000,000
Asians, Africans, and others are doing all they can to increase their
own material comforts, and with little or no regard for the pollution
that results.

Americans consumes nearly 30 times as much energy as Africans, 10 times
as much as East Asians, 5 times the world average. Some (all
treehugggers, no doubt) would like to see us meet the developing world
somewhere in the middle. But, I suspect you are among those Americans
who believe the only solution is superior firepower...

Marc