The problem is humanity. The assholes who own the public mindshare on green issues are misogynic nuts who oppose our best chance for clean energy - nuclear - fo

The problem is humanity. The assholes who own the public mindshare on green issues are misogynic nuts who oppose our best chance for clean energy - nuclear - for ideological reasons. The fossil fuel industry sits on so much unburnt fuel that their financial incentives to turn our world to shit to liquidate their capital is unresistable - jusy like an addict can't resist their narcotic despite it destroys them. Governments are the only bodies that could do something to this but it appears right wing nuts have captured the political arena in western countries by focusing on unhelpful non-issues to further their political ambitions. Nobody cares about the environment unless the doomsday comes nexr week. And the doomsday wont come - it will be a slow boiling, and we all will be the frogs. Personally, I don't think there is anything a person without political connections can do to really do anything - except to shift the general discourse to environmental issues up until we reach the point where we in general understand environmental issues to be moral issues of utmost importance - and thus drive general policies towards sane goals. The trend seems positive - recycling seems to be a big thing and 'green is good' - but so far for the majority environmental issues seem to be lifestyle issues and not critical issues. In this light, I suppose anything one can do in ones communities to raise the awareness on ecological issues is good. One of the main problems of communcating with the public is that the environmental agenda front is filled with self-righteous nutcases without critical analysis skills and who are more like a crazy crystall healers rather than a Jaques Cousteau style pragmatists. Now that I think of it, the more pragmatic geeks we can get involved in ecological issues the better. The world deserves a better breed of ecological afficionados.