The media is ripe with chicken little running amuch. The article below points this out even more so. My take on it, even as I keep clipping all the bad news, is that for our society, our world, and the future to change, people must change first. There is way too much greed - which is what got everyone, all over the world into this mess. The guys at the top need $50million+ salaries and bonuses, which meant the worker bees down the line needed find that "honey" some place. So find ways to spew propoganda that everyone needs bigger houses, oh and not just one - but a second or third for vacations, which most people would have little time to take since they needed to keep working to have that lifesytle. People need bigger and more expensive cars, but wait - where to get the money - take out second mortgage. So the greed progressed down the chain here in the US and of course the demand drove output elsewhere in the world and the cheap labor started making lots of money for producing