the ignorance of humanity is astonishing beyond words...
getting the word out might be the first step, but turning off our pc's for one hour a night and doing something about it would be much more successful...
each individual CAN offset what that individual causes many times over... but no government has the ability to offset what it's people causes on any day thus far...
industry needs to be held accountable. if one were to instate a law where any company making (x) amount of dollars of gross annual profit (lets say the biggest 1 or 2 percent profit wise) were federally mandated to invest (y) amount into wind, solar, etc. energy this would boost sales in green power industries to the point where prices would/could drop fast enough to make it financially appealing to the masses. once it's cheaper to use green fuels than it is to plug into the power company that's using jet fuel to power it's turbines to keep our a/c's running... well, cheap is appealing....
people (government and industry included) just need to think rationally about the legacy that we leave our children... as a whole.
nuclear, for example is one source that IMO is still at least 50 yrs of research away from being the "safe" fuel it's thought to be today. anyone who disagrees, i would challenge to recollect what problems BP had recently and think back how long we've been totally dependent on that fuel/technology... then compare/contrast the scope of disasters that are possible with a "slip of the wrist" or one paid off inspection............ AFAIK one drill hole blowing can't send off a chain reaction that sets the rest of them off across an entire continent/nation to destroy all known life on the planet. nuclear theoretically has that capability........................ fission especially....
as a whole, we are one seriously ignorant, arrogant PEST species.... like ticks that have invaded/colonized every square inch of a host drilling for blood on more unprecedented levels on a minute by minute basis... our host is dying and yet there's a good majority of individuals of our "intelligent" species that sees no signs of it.........
funny how insignificant the hole in our ozone seems to have become in a decade... in light of our mass extinctions... which is so insignificant... in light of our global warming....
(yes, i understand there may or may not be a correlation between the former and latter depending who paid the scientists looking at both and who you're talking to)
and here i sit, obviously possessing the ability to send this communication. thus i am no better......