Good luck in October

Dear Ted: Saw your call to action. Very stimulating and I'm with you all the way (in spirit) since you understand the actual immensity and immediacy of THE PROBLEM. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080807N.shtml

I've been environmentally aware since I was 8 years old, in 1962, when I decided I'd never have children. Back then, there were "starving kids in China" (as mom's would warn those of us reluctant-to-eat-our-vegies). I figured if there were starving kids, anywhere, I wouldn't want to add any of my own...and so far I have not.

There are few organizations as concerned with population, and where it is heading, in the way the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is. Having children given all that you recognize in your article and a whole lot more (how about no fish in 2050?) is IMMORAL at best. Catrostrophe, apocalypse, disaster, die-off, whatever one wishes to call it, the number of actual people around at the time it will happen must be minimized.

Therefore, for the good of the rest of life on the planet, we choose not to have children.

http://www.vhemt.org/

Just an FYI and thanks for your service to humanity.

The likelihood of Congress standing up to oil/auto/coal/energy/whatever anytime in the next 10 years is zero. Too many special interests, too much money, too much money on the side of the status quo, which, as you so gently point out, is killing the very inhabitability of the planet. That is why my analysis below is somewhat gloomy, sorry, but I'm a scientist, optimist (salesman), and a realist. We cannot get out of our own way. Individually, humans are brilliant. In a group we cannot act with wisdom...

Here is my "secular prayer" : May we live long and die out.

You asked two questions: Can we do it? and... Is it too late?

Can we do it? Actually, we cannot, but we don't even recognize that yet. We've pushed the trolley so far off the rails that climate change will be careening out of control for many 100's of years, and NOTHING we can do in the short term can stop it at all! 300-400KM storms will strike, scrubbing everything down to the bedrock...trust me, the weather and nature don't care whether they are accomodating to human life or not...

Is it too late? Way too late to prevent a die off of humanity that will make the black plague look like the common cold.

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Cheers,

Frish