Of course, all these discussions are very difficult, since the global environment is so complex. I don't actually believe that global warming is necessarily 100% man made, but what we're doing is just exaggerating the situation at a very unfortunate time, and upsetting a natural balance in a very dangerous way. What I find so unnerving is that it is the huge Corporations (in league with the White House) who are responsible for this, and how their greed is taking away so much which was traditionally community owned and making it private, for the good of the privileged few.

I just do not understand how it can be that so many presumably intelligent people cannot see where this is leading us. Nobody seems to care about the world that we are leaving to our children, it's all about ME, ME, ME, get rich NOW, somebody else can sort out the problems later. The Corporations are of course very devious, playing on peoples self interest and greed. They say they are working for the common good, when in actual fact it's all about satisfying their shareholders and increasing their profit and power. Nothing else. This is built into the very charters of Corporations. "A Corporations' legally defined mandate is to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, it's own self interest, regardless of harmful consequences it might cause to others".

They now seem to have practically as much power as government, a most disturbing thought. They determine what we eat, what we watch, what we wear, where we work, and what we do.
Where's our all important DEMOCRACY in all this? We have to have more regulation, not less. The Enron scandals and all the others are examples of what happens when you weaken the regulations to appease your big business buddies.

We don't need more Corporations, we need more cooperation.