Paul Gilding’s book *The Great Disruption: Why the climate crisis will bring on the end of shopping and the birth of a new world* explains our enormous environmental challenges clearly and head-on. Gilding describes the complexity and enormity of our climate change and resource depletion, and how these will impact economies, governments, and personal lives. Gilding is excellent at refuting the dodges, denials, rationalizations, and excuses used regularly by conservatives to counter environmental calls to action.

The Great Disruption does an excellent job of describing our current predicaments regarding not … …

Don’t forget that manufacturing cars and things uses lots and lots of fuel – mostly dirty coal from power plants.

Everything we acquire comes with a past.

Bigger families buy, burn up, and throw away more stuff: more gasoline, more home heating oil, more food, more durable goods. Why are we making family planning so difficult?

Purchase this as a bumper sticker on Zazzle.… …

Whether you buy it from BP, Exxon, or Starvin’ Marvin’s, you’re placing general demand on a general commodity, and the devils at BP still profit.

Just think how easily we could tax gasoline and use the revenue to  reduce our income taxes and fund clean energy. Instead, everybody has to subsidize big oil, even if they can’t afford cars. Where are the libertarians on this one?… …