Disillusioned

There's two related "big" issues out there - Climate change and Peak oil, and both with similar responses looking for individual and collecive responses. There an upcoming PBS documentary, "The great warming", and a new book "The Oil Depletion Proocol".

http://www.thegreatwarming.com/howtogetinvolved.html
http://www.oildepletionprotocol.org/citizens/personalimplementation

Reading these suggestions just sort of depressess me, NOT that they are not good, just knowing that they're all fundamentally insufficient responses to a long term problem we've created by depending on an energy source that will either change our climate or run down, and force us to use even dirtier fuels.

It's almost foolish, it seems to me to even suggest individual responses of moderation to a collective problem. VP Cheney was right - conservation is a personal virtue, offering personal benefits, and isn't properly anything worth bragging about or advocating beyond self-interest.