Here in Juneau, our hydroelectric power supply was cut off by an avalanche. Our power bills are expected to jump around 500% from around 11 cents per KwH to at least 50! We haven't even gotten the first power bill and already the paper reports consumption is down 20%! At the hospital our new motto is "If we're not saving lives, at least we're saving electricity!"

What if 5 years ago we heard that gas prices were going up 500% effective immediately? What a revolution there would have been! We can do so much to stop this disaster but like boiling frogs we have let it creep up on us until maybe there really is nothing we can do. Hell, it's a lot easier to say we can't fix it and keep running it into the ground than to change the way we live.

Denial is how a battered partner stays in a relationship until they are finally killed. It's how an alcoholic lets everything they care about go away or be destroyed. It's how humans justify abuse of animals and ignoring abuse of other humans. Every seemingly little thing we do--every time we drive to work when we could have gotten there by our own power, every time we throw away something that we could have not used, reused or recycled, and everytime we eat animal products, we push the planet closer to irrevocable destruction. We must awaken ourselves and our neigbors to the urgency of the situation before we destroy ourselves.