Lots of stuff needs to be discussed more. I could take this time to rant about the stupidity of capitalism or the necessity of illegalizing firearms in the United States or the unfairness of people blaming Israel for the problems of the Middle East when it's actually 90% the fault of the Arabs surrounding, but instead I will talk about the environment.

I do not understand why anyone worries at all about the economy or international politics or safety or ANYTHING AT ALL before we solve the problem that is the environment. Whether or not people are employed, if humanity continues on this trajectory we will all be dead in 2 centuries, tops. Who cares about little unimportant things like civil rights if in a couple generations we will all be dead anyways?

And it isn't like the problem would be particularly hard to fix, especially compared to problems like social equality, which involves taking money from some people and giving it to others. All the rich people aren't interested in social equality, but who is the opposition to saving the environment? NO ONE! The only people against environmental regulation are big businesses who stand to lose money if the environment is regulated. What are the desires of a few thousand businessmen who want to earn an extra few million dollars compared to the survival of the human race? Several years ago, a statistic came out that if solar panels were built to cover 1/4 of Kansas, it could power the entire planet's electricity. And solar panel technology and efficiency has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years; by now we probably only need 1/8 of Kansas to power humanity's needs! A simple law to require recycling nationwide would save millions of trees each year!

I am confused by anyone who is against environmental regulation. They are basically saying that they don't care about the future, as long as they can drive everywhere in an SUV. As it stands, humanity will be the only race to cause itself to go extinct. When aliens land on the planet X years from now and unearth our remains, they will laugh about how shortsighted and greedy humans were, unable to control themselves for their children and grandchildren. My grandparents' generation at least have the excuse of ignorance; they had no idea that dumping garbage into the environment was bad (duh). My parents' generation have no excuse, but they at least are attempting to publicize the fact that the environment is being destroyed. Our children, if we don't do something now, will look back at our generation as the generation responsible for the extinction of the human race.

An Inconvenient Truth
http://vimeo.com/16335777