Martin: While I applaud the spirit of this essay, I implore you to stop blaming nature - human or o/w - for this crisis. "It is human nature not to care about your house maybe possibly getting flooded or burned down in ten years, if it means you’d have to stop driving your car today." No, it is NOT. That is called the pervasive conditioning of a consumer culture, which is anything but natural or humane. It is human nature to empathize and cooperate with others out of a concern for survival. That's how we gained ascendency, not by being selfish pricks. Thank you.