The ignorance is tiring. Global warming or not, uncontrolled consumption lowers the likelihood that humans will carve a lasting and healthy LONGterm existence on Earth. If not for concern about environmental risks, a multitude of crises could arise from air quality, water quality and provision, and food provision. Economic factors are important, but with our technology and wealth, America should be moving forward toward sustainability of the ever growing human population.
Of course, there is always cataclysmic population control (through war or nature), or maybe Grayson would volunteer to remove himself from the human population for the greater good?

Book-lover, the math is rough up there, but I guess the sentiment is well placed.

Will we ever get tired of being an aristocracy where corporations hold perverse sway over the system of laws that should protect all citizens? They lobby to write the laws and they fund the executors of those same laws, and if that fails they they hire lawyers to stall any action against them. Sounds like money makes you a premium citizen... we may have been created equal, but...

All this makes me feel is helpless to the whims of money and politics. At eight in the morning, feeling this sad about being an American is very unhealthy I'm sure. It is just a bunch of fighting over force fed ideals, when all that should matter is love and cooperation (in the face of difference...that's what makes it difficult). Instead, America is about profits, consumption, and individual preservation of comforts. It is sad, but how can David defeat the Goliath that is modern aristocracy?