OK - Now I'm Depressed.

The video is from Al Jazeera.  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/05/2011530195212675595.html

Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon output in history, putting hopes of holding global warming to safe levels all but out of reach, according to unpublished estimates from the International Energy Agency.  The shock rise means the goal of preventing a temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius – which scientists say is the threshold for potentially "dangerous climate change" – is likely to be just "a nice Utopia", according to Fatih Birol, chief economist of the IEA. It also shows the most serious global recession for 80 years has had only a minimal effect on emissions, contrary to some predictions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/29/carbon-emissions-nuclearpower?intcmp=122

Sigh ......well, no point in being depressed.  It won't help. 

So ------Write your Congressperson - MP - Senator - and tell them this is a serious problem and we expect decisive leadership - not a craven grovelling at the feet of the fossil fuels industry. 

Ethics: action is Necessary

However hopeless preventing and ameliorating the effects of climate change seems to be sometimes, and however depressed we become, it is something we must work on.  The consequences of doing nothing are so grave - so dismal - and affect not only our children and grandchildren but every ecosystem in the world that we must continue.  Did the Polish cavalry charge Nazi tanks? Yes they did ..... Did the British surrender at the threat of the German invasion? No they did not.....Did Estonians forget their language living under Soviet rule? No, they did not.... They all did the right thing.

So we too must do the right thing ..... however close disaster seems. And millions of people are working on saving the planet - check out http://www.350.org/ or http://www.wiserearth.org/ if you feel you are alone.  Excelsior!

(By the way, I highly recommend watching Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert as a cure for depression.)