Hey Todd,

I hear you.

But I still wanted to point out that climate change has now "officially" moved from a bottom-up to a top-down movement. It has been bought by the corporate world because they see profits in it. No surprise there, I just happened to notice the moment it went down, and thought I'd share that.

7-7-7 has in one day taken away the 10-year period we still might have had to at least do something. Whether that's good or bad, I can't truthfully say.

I wanted to expose Al Gore as the man who has achieved the incorporation of the issue. Whether he does so willingly or stupidly makes no difference to me, though I'd go for the former. After all, he sold the whole show to GM. I can only imagine what they paid for the privilege. 2 billion viewers, and the busiest streaming/downlaod website in history.. That can't be cheap.

He should be denounced for it so loud that he's never heard from again.

This is not about awareness, but the 180 degrees opposite, it's about painting a pre-fab picture of the issue (and then calling that awareness), one that makes people fork over. Hey, at times we can, or even must, still rage against the lie, right?

On a site dedicated to peak oil, I thought it might be good to show how the process of incorporating issues works. The exact same thing will happen to peak oil. And when business and media get their hands on it, you won't recognize it anymore. That's what's going on here. TOD afficionado's may think they own the peak oil theme, but they haven't seen anything yet.

James Hansen has to be a very frustrated man, because no-one listens to him. they all listen to Al Gore (who then talks about James Hansen). For peak oil, all you need to do is change the names, the mechanism remains identical.

On a positive note, writing things like this might encourage a few, just a few, more people, sick of being lied to, to throw out the tubes and come work in our gardens with us. That wouldn't be so bad, would it?

PS Love this picture: