Dear Sir/Madam,

The article "Green vs. Making Green" in today's NYT  provides a terrifyingly clear example of a common attitude towards the fateful situation we are in: Mr Ford and many like him would so much like to save our planet, but in practice they find that such a noble venture is simply not economically feasible. Perhaps they believe that God will provided us with another planet after we have finished plundering and wrecking this one!

Why should I worry? I'll be safely dead and gone by the time things get really bad. Nor do I have any children or grandchildren whose cures I need one day fear.

But I do care. Which is why on my homepage, under the title "Towards a Philosophy of Survival", I'm trying to put together my ideas on achieving a sustainable society.