TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."

The flaw is the business plan - digging up and burning way more carbon than physics says we can deal with. So, I suppose it's some kind of mid-point between writing them nice letters asking them to stop and figuring out a way to take down the entire system- which I don't have any idea how to do.

Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.

What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on.

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.