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What can we do??

One hears quite often that we can make a difference at the ballot box, but I 
would opine that this is no longer true.

The rallies, protests, 'getting the information out', and all such are 
useless.  

What is driving world affairs is our (collective) lifestyle.  We would not be 
in the Iraq war were there not a demand to enforce our control of the world 
oil market to keep the McMansions heated and cooled and to buy the gas to 
commute 60 miles from them to useless make-work jobs in climate controled 
offices.

For everyone persuaded to tune into Air America (which now has to PAY 
stations to run its programming) there are five people recommending that folk 
tune in 
Limbaugh and Boortz.  I'm not endorsing one over the other, only staying they 
are equally as usleless in changing the status of things.

It doesn't matter who you put into congress or the White House; it doesn't 
matter who is CEO of what and how much they are paid.   So long as the people 
think that success is the number of cubic inches in the engine and the square 
teet of the McMansion, we will do what it takes to secure the fuels for this 
lifestyle.

ONLY a drastic reduction in consumption is going to make a difference.  And 
make no mistake, that reduction is coming either voluntarily or by dire 
necessity.

My money is on the latter.