'Scuse me, for I came in a bit late on this. But even though the ad may have been a bit strong (allright, and maybe even hyperbolic) the underlying truth is that we cannot keep consuming resources at the current steadily increasing rate with more people adopting our habits and still have a world. The world's population is thousands of times what it was when our species was younger, and we consume thousands of times the resources per capita.

The resources we are consuming took millions of years to create. The rate we are using them is thousands of times faster than they were created. This is unsustainable, regardless of what political diety you pray to--conservative, liberal, commie, NRA, KGB, IFP. At the current rate of consumption (which includes but is by no means limited to) SUVS, we will have no air to breathe, no water to drink, and no oil left to burn within less than a century.

But then, I am an optimist, so please pay no attention.