On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 22:09:11 GMT, in a place far, far away,
lid (John Savard) made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:


Why, yes, there are. We _can_ tread more gently on the Earth without
attempting to curtail human material well-being to an unrealistic
extent. There are other ways to produce energy besides the use of fossil
fuels.

Yes, and as the cost of fossil fuels rises, we will continue to shift
over to them more and more.