Trollbait (Score 2, Insightful)

So, the Earth has been like a gigantic 'battery' for the past several hundred million years or so, being trickle-charged by solar energy. All of a sudden (in a microscopic blink of an eye, in terms of geologic time) it's being discharged by human willy-nilly technology. Uh-oh... where's that Fast Recharge switch? There isn't one. The Bush/Kerry Demo-Publi-Cratican establishment tried for awhile to get us to think they could just drill a bunch of hydrogen wells or something to solve this little prob, but apparently reality recently intervened on that one. Personally, I think the only answer is figuring out how to safely tap nuclear energy to keep the whole show going, which would be the elegant solution, but oh what a head-scratcher that one seems to be so far. I guess all we can really hope is that the demand for the ancient power source doesn't get too great in the near future, giving us all time to get used to it (whatever that may mean), and find some way of dealing with what looks more and more like a "Tragedy of The Commons writ very large" taking its course. Looking back to the 1950's, say, we probably should have said to ourselves, "Gee, if we don't stop using all this stuff now, our grandchildren are going to hate us someday". Right. Oh well... (btw, if someone over there wants to label this a 'troll' post, well, that's ok with me I guess)