This country can thank capitalism and capitalists like Cheney for all of it's problems. Consumption and short sightedness.

Capitalism = money = consumption leaves out one important and simple piece of logic - which I defy any human to refute.

Earth has limited natural resources to sustain life.

What's the exit strategy for the human species? To die and go to heaven?

There is coming a point where there are less and less forests and oceans and clean air and water to sustain civilization not to mention life itself - except for microorganisms.

The world is now visibly consuming itself while at the same time destroying nature - which is the sole provider for all life on earth. Suicide.

Meanwhile we argue about religion and oil and money - when we should be looking for some other planets to inhabit or try to save earth before it's too late.

Inevitably people who think like Cheney - live in a vacuum - and are rationalizing about a world that is irrational at a cosmic level.

He suggests that it's the survival of the fittest - however he fails to understand it is the hungriest who will first assume control before they in turn destroy each other. And there are far more hungry than fit.

When there there are no more fish or animals or fruits & vegetables to eat. We have only ourselves to feast upon. Symbolically we are practicing intellectual cannibalism at the present.

Those in power will find ways to reduce the demand of the planets population on resources.

By depopulating the planet. Katrina was an example of one of the techniques that will be used as a result of climate change.

Nuclear war is an instant depopulation methodology.

Anyway - do you think a 73 year old John McCain should influence the future of our planet - or for that matter a housewife from Wasilla, Alaska?

The new economics must factor in the need to restore nature and to colonize outer space.