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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (64587)	4/19/2006 8:05:48 AM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362340

Your outrage will be vindicated in November. Your desires are one election away. Lock 'n load.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (64587)	4/19/2006 3:35:43 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362340

The thing is, it may be too late. We may have already lost control of the forces that turn back the 'End of History' to use a Neocon's absurd thought. We may be heading pell mell into the abyss of massive climate change, bacterial and viral infection and mass human insanity and stupidity. I'm really struck by the rapidity with which Global Warming and Peak Oil has taken hold of the heretofore stupid corporate media and frequently asleep American public. It really wasn't that long ago that SUVs were just amazingly popular with the 'bigger the better' theme (Hummers, Expeditions, Suburbans) and it really wasn't until last summer's $3/gallon gasoline that people suddenly took notice that it cost $100 to fill the tank in a behemoth. Global Warming was treated by the corporate media as an argument which was more political than scientific. Now it's 'Greenland is melting' all day, every day. I can't tell if this is because 'everyone hates Republicans because of Iraq and Katrina' or because global warming and peak oil have suddenly spun beyond our control. I'm starting to think it's the 'out of our control' scenario. Just as the public consciousness didn't understand about the violent change in weather until Katrina, we may not realize how bad things until we get punched in the face...and then it may be too late to do anything about it. I don't know where the 'we have 10 years to fix things' idea comes from but it seems too pat to be real. Why an even decade? Why not 6 years or 6 weeks or 15 years?