If you feel like our finances are out of control...

I don't like to be alarmist as it generally doesn't help. Much better to promptly recognize a problem and then take action to deal with it. However, in the midst of all the news of the financial meltdown, I'm concerned we aren't paying to an even bigger one: Exclusive: The methane time bomb - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent If this is real, then it may indeed be the case that the global warming train has left the station. Man made or not, once current ecological systems shut down or shift to another mode I don't believe we have the knowledge and power to shift them back.

At that point it becomes a new game of survival in a suddenly less hospitable world.

I only hope the predictions are wrong, and we can still take meaningful action.