we're doomed

None of this comes as news to me - but it's worth noting anyway:

Consumerism is 'eating the future'

The thing is, the current economic recession could mark a change of tide on how we go about things from now on... but you just know it won't. The emphasis is still all on trying to scramble back to where we were in the 'boom times'... with whole Governments and industry in total denial that was all based on smoke and mirrors.

So - in short, we're doomed. *sigh*