12 December 2007 - 12:13A cause for the kids

Well, it’s the Christmas season, and while that does merit some attention on my part, I won’t be blogging about it here. One of my regular rotation of podcasts is the CBC program Ideas. The most recent episode (download) is talking about establishing a hydrogen economy. Now granted, the interviewee is a cheerleader and there are some rather significant hurdles (one link among many, I’m sure), but I’m one of those of the opinion that human-caused climate change is most likely real and the only real point of argument is how far along it is toward the point of no return. Sorry for the run-on sentence. The interviewee in this case sees dim prospects on that regard. The possibilities he holds out, however, are heartening and the one-two punch he delivers that would keep me from throwing up my hands is that (a) he may be mistaken about how bad things really are (ok, that’s my opinion, not his) and (b) people like to fight against the odds. There’s a certain industriousness that kicks in when folks are put up to it. The point for me, though, is that there are things to be done and with a bit of thought, we can do ‘em. As I put in the title, the kids are going to get it; the question is, what are we going to give them?