In my mind, what the article is stating is that there has to be a point where we all realize that something has to change in the way that we do things (similar to the way the US needs to change their spening habits). I`m not trying to stand on my soap box here… I`m a contributor to the environmental problems just like everyone is, yet it just doesn`t seem to make sense to me that we can turn our back on some very prominent problems.