Global Warming

The debate about global warming is a bit of a red herring in the drive to live eco-friendly. The
prognostications of long term climate models are highly suspect. Meteorologists are not terrifically adept at predicting the weather a day in advance, much less a decade. By their own admission, reliability of forecasts drops dramaticaly when extended by mere days so crediting these extended predictions much credibility seems to fly in the face of reason.
What is most important is that the climate change debate is irrelevant when trying to formulate a rational course on how to live on earth. The arguments for a profound rethinking of the way we build, travel, work and do almost anything which we consider civilized needs a radical overhaul for a host of other reasons. Among those are a need to eliminate waste on moral, spiritual and aesthetic grounds. And the waste is everywhere.
Obesity is widely known to be a problem with serious health consequences. It also affects people in many other ways, impacting their ability to engage in physical activity- from sex to working around the house. It is a drag on their self confidence and consequently limits their sense of well being. Once that's out of alignment everything else begins to shift in a negative direction and the downward spiral begins to feel like an inescapable vortex.
The way we bulid our homes, communities, vehicles, infrastructure are just as gluttonous and ill thought out as patterns of overindulgence that lead to obesity on a personal level. We are a grossly overweight body living in grotesquely oversized houses and wasting almost every resource we can get our hands on.
When we start doing the right things with our personal environments as individuals, we begin to experience that revitilization that the obese feel when they begin to lose weight. Our spirits are lifted and each improvement spurs us on to get more in touch with that healthy animal we yearn to be. We start to become the happy monkey in the garden that our nature wants us to embody.