"is there some strange idea that we are going to find another planet, go and live there when this one is depleted and destroyed?? i would not hold my breath. my beliefs tell me that this is our biosphere, and we do not get another one. earth. our planet, our home. "

Although I don't want the Earth destroyed, and am not suggesting other planets as a cure for what ails us, I must say this: we have lightyears of uninhabited space before us, or around us, or whatever, and we're stuck over-populating this one, facing the dire consequences of a sort-of-natural population cycle?

Manifest Destiny all the way on this one!

BTW: Wasn't Greenland the only government to sign the Kyoto treaty back in '97 or thereabouts? (Self-interest at work: the first nation that is going to have to really face the effects of Global Warming... The problem with capitalism being the emphasis on instant gratification at the expense of the longer-outlook picture.)