Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

Not really in my local climate. Globally, maybe.

We may be fixating on a cycle and not a trend -- and that is the problem.

Economically responsible and moderate solutions are wise -- radical economic dislocation is foolish. The problem is every dirt farmer in the third world wants a car and consumers in developed nations are wasteful or non-adaptive to new green technologies. So in the long term: economically positive change and lower in carbon footprint -- the best of two worlds.

The ''fix'' is in a 30 year pattern of change ...