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I think this site could and should raise an initiative for a new international meeting - the "Peak Oil Kyoto".
The TOD press release is very concise and to the point. However, it is all but inevitable that PO awareness will NOT enter the mainstream until 2009. At that point, the deafening Wurlitzer organ of the rightwing corporate media will be brought to bear on whichever hapless Democrat becomes the new president. That in turn will set us up for another 8-12 year cycle of inaction, denial and corruption.
It's every man for himself, and that goes for the ladies too!
And what was the GW awareness before the Kyoto summit?
.....when GW awareness finally forced its way into what passes for mainstream awareness, we had already selected a perfect moron for our president, and the rest is history....Kyoto blown off by the US!
And since then, the US has set a course for doom, following the trade winds of fear, ignorance and greed, driving ahead under sails woven out of Brittany Spear's bra and a zillion foreclosure notices......
See, you should give a speech! Tell them that the capitalist machine will not stop until it squeezes the last drop of oil from this planet, like from a lemon. Tell them that common folks don't deserve better fate but drowning in their own ignorance. And tell them that "Brittany Spear" is pathetic, dumb and disgusting, just as they are, as well as their new-born president. They go to heaven, they don't give a damn. Anyway..
Everyone would hate my speech. really, I am very impressed with the work done here. But today is one of those days where I just don't see much hope......
Hope for what?
This is just another mess, the world has seen many of them so far.
And when it comes to your president, listen to this:
...And in the debates, Bush tried his best to come off sounding smart and serious. He made references to complicated economic policies. Difficult as it may be to believe now, many voters in the 1978 campaign were turned off by George W. Bush's overt intelligence. They figured him for some kind of brainiac.
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But George W. Bush is fully aware of how his enemies perceive him, and this is precisely how he wants them to react. His personality and mannerisms are actually the result of deliberate effort. This is not to say that it's all an act, but he does emphasize these elements of his personality for the benefit of the press and general public. And yet these affectations continue to be astonishingly effective; his act still manages to fool even his political opponents, who really ought to know better. After all, the basis of Bush's phenomenal political career has been people's underestimating him. As his political advisor Karl Rove said in 2002: "I can't explain why they underestimate him, but they do. Whatever the reason, I hope they keep doing it."
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/george-w-bush/