"Who Cooked the Earth?"

....may be the best op-ed title of all time.

Actually, it's "Who Cooked the Planet,"  a piece by Paul Krugman in the July 25th New York Times.

"Never say that the gods lack a sense of humor. I bet they’re still chuckling on Olympus over the decision to make the first half of 2010 — the year in which all hope of action to limit climate change died — the hottest such stretch on record." (Krugman, New York Times, July 25, 2010)



Is all hope gone?  If the big corporations, the Pentagon, and the big polluters don't change their ways, will recycling the envelopes my mail comes in really make a difference?

As Al Gore (channelling Winston Churchill) once said, 'now we are living in the time of consequences.'  The goal now may well be to prevent a total breakdown of of water supply, air supply, and stall the end of the livability of this planet.