So how much oil does all this corporate globalization and free marketeering

[Skidmore]

use from the world's supply? The whole idea of Big Bidness is to make more stuff--cheaply--and sell more stuff. Well if "cheaply" means having to transport many plastic doodads and other products stored in plastic packaging long distances to markets, what is the contribution of this concept to global warming. I really appreciate Al Gore's message, but I think there is something very abstract about the idea of carbon units. I really don't understand what it means to pay who? so that you can continue to do what you do in essentially the same way. What needs to happen is that the whole issue of consumption--what, when, where, and how--is addressed. What do we CONSUME? When is it essential that we produce something? Where is it produced? How is it made and brought to market?

[lvx35]

1. Great point. You hit the nail on the head, its absolutely ALL connected.

Massive oil is used to transport those goods from China, and to transport resources to China to produce them. The nightmares of the "global market", dependance on forign oil and global warming are all manifestations of this completely unsustainable way of life. This is the truth nobody wants to look at but we will be forced to in time. Its absolutely all coming together right now.