That is exactly what everyone is missing. I'm not just some guy ranting. This is a subject I've been paying attention to long before Gore came along. It's so obvious, yet I suppose I'd have to write a book to open people's eyes.

The bottom line is number of people combined with what they are doing. The problem is twofold. And people don't seem to be connecting the two. What Gore is saying is great. But unless people connect it with population, they'll never make that connection. Which is, thinking in terms of we versus me. And there is a reason people aren't making that connection. It has made my life really difficult. And it should. It's the only way we are going to curb the increasing carbon footprint that is going to destroy this planet. Or at least alter it in a way that will change it dramatically. That connection leads to the realization that each one of us is doing this. Not just some obscure notion that it's happening. Each one of us has the responsibility to change what we are doing. To sacrifice. That is the word that is so threatening.

The thing that is so obvious is the use of petroleum. Oh it's just one seat on a plane. It's just me, one time. It's something everyone has to do. Bush is an idiot, he doesn't even like to travel. Travel broadens the mind. All kinds of reasons why we should. And very little inspection as to what we need to do in order to stop the problem now. Because if not now, then when. The real problem is more related to the fact that there are six billion of us than it is to petroleum use. There is a point below which the planet can handle this kind of carbon dioxide production. But our numbers have exceeded that. And more. Now the forests are disappearing faster than they can grow. Number of users. There is no argument.

When you use petroleum, you have to realize that "you" is now billions of "you"s.

It's actually one of those things that can be put in binary terms. You either are causing global warming or you aren't. And that is what each of us is faced with.