Re: Storm Coming II

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1252968.htm .................
If predictions are correct, no future generation will forget 2005 - the year the world began eating into the second half of its oil reserves.

Or, as Professor David Goodstein of the California Institute of Technology argues, the beginning of the end of the civilisation as we know it..........
Professor Goodstein recognises the challenge, that is, making politicians around the world confront these looming power problems.

"We went through a presidential election in the US in which neither party mentioned anything having to do with this problem, which I think is the most important problem of our era," he said.

"Politicians do not want to touch this subject.

"Any politician who tells Americans that they'll have to give up their SUVs has committed political suicide.