Mankind must go green or die, says Prince Charles

[a geek named Bob]

122. sigh

As I've said... Repeatedly...

If YOU want to live like a savage, have at it. If you try to force ME, you're going to need medical care, or a holy person of your choice. If YOU want to go and live in the woods, blessed be to you and yours. Come 'round my way, and I'll invoke Castle Doctrine.

The problems we currently face (resource depletion, energy crisis, pollution, and Global Warming) can be solved with better applications of technology. Wind and Solar (and a little Biomass and RTG-work) take care of the energy problem. Through-cycling takes care of the a lot of resource depletion. Using CO2 derived carbon as a construction resource takes care of the GHG.

My Carbon Footprint is 2 tons/year, what's yours?

You guys keep pushing the same button: This society is based on NOTHING more than unlimited growth, and the population is only increasing in growth. These are fallacies. There's a lot of us out there that actually reuse our stuff (To the point that my neighbors are wondering if my wife and I are simply hiding it in the basement.) Also, there's the interesting little tidbit that Western civilization is NOT increasing in size, nor increasing in now-renewable fuel-use.

Then you guys go on about the "glories" of living small and low tech. That pretty brings back death at a young age, higher rate of infant/mom mortality, and death by accident.

Sounds like a great world you're pushing for... I'll pass. Instead, I'll just help keep the cities alive. For fun, us city dwellers can go out and have luddite shoots.