Ma'am;....Considering that it will take forty to fifty years for the emissions we spew today to begin affecting the environment, and that the problem may go critical to the point where it cannot be reined in by humans changing their behavior, then clearly, the G8 is advocating too little, too late...As the glaciers and ice caps have begun to melt, the Monster has begun to feed itself... What do you do when your government will not govern, when it will not make the hard choices and agreements needed to avert disaster??? Consider this: If the enviromentalists are correct, then the trend will continue -of more and more of the world becoming uninhabitable at the very moment when our morals and medicine are swelling the world's population... Consider what will become of our morals when we are all fighting over the same moldy loaf of bread??? Is it too much for you??? Does it give you a migraine??? Irresponsible government, and irresponsible people have the same thing in common... The problems they refuse to address they can leave for another day, beyond the horizons of their lives... So much unreality attends the future and the past because we are not there...But some of us have children... Some of us want responsible government as a goal worthy in itself... The capitalist class cannot get beyond the next quarter...Profit decides who will live and who will die...And the government controlled by capital can see no further than its owners... The poor little Iroquois confederacy, the terrors of the Eastern United States, would consider the effects of their actions for the next seven generations... We cannot hold a thought for seven minutes in this country... All we can get is more of the past...It is such original thinking that ensured the destruction of Greece and Rome, and now we invite destruction...I mean; you invite destruction, and our government invites destruction, and the party continues so that the future, if there is one, can pay for it all... Like Groucho said: Why should I do anything for posterity...What has posterity ever done for me???...Thanks...Sweeney

Ms. Saunders, listen to Mr. Sweeney. He's right about the essential thing that you party now, worry later word sellers never seem to get right. It's called delayed gratification. Hold back now, just a little, to make sure our grandchildren aren't blasted with the consequences of our abandon. We don't NEED to trash the planet. It's not a God-given right to do so, last time I checked the Holy Bible. Is there some dark need to which we must succumb to test the very limits of our existence? While both you and Mr. Sweeney are at it, please both of you think about the rate at which the human population is growing. That's the real issue. It was back in the Sixties when I was in grammer school reading about the need to control population growth in My Weekly Reader, and it is now, a few billion more humans later. We are getting very close to killing ourselves with our own need to procreate. Not politically saleable, but what needs to be confronted if we want to live on a planet we want to live on.