It is difficult for me to understand why this world just says a lot, and no one is willing to help inventors such as Robert Krupa, in Farmington Hills, in the production of its patent. The inventor spoke with producers of spark plugs, but they are not interested in him.

We have all heard the saying, “If something sounds too good to be
true, it usually is”. The amazing new spark plug designed by Mr Krupa,
which he named “FireStorm”, is the exception to this rule.

The FireStorm spark plugs give an internal combustion engine more horsepower, 44-50% increase in mpg, and decreased emissions. They eliminate the smog pump, catalytic converter, radio frequency interference, gap growth, exhaust gas recirculation systems, and misfire.

This is achieved because the spark plugs create an electric plasma that fills the entire combustion chamberand allows the air/fuel mixture to burn more efficiently without increasing heat. see:

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=87928

and a radio interview with the inventor:
http://odeo.com/episodes/22575785-Robert-Krupa-Jun-02-2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abwXApkLhbc

The Time Machine and Lord of The Flies both come to mind. The blitheness or naivety of the people in ‘The Machine’ and the rage and aggression displayed in the latter. A pathetic disconnection with nature has arisen. Where are we headed?

Fatima Chowdhury

You can do something to change the world? yes but not while we live with 400 euros per month and while we are exploited. I’m tired of false ecologists and volunteers. I’m sorry but it s what i see around me most of the times. It makes me sad and sceptical. So i do my part and educate my kids with that conscience, hoping that people change one of these days.

because the major problem i see is that people don’t want to change things, they like it as it is now.

Rex Weyler:

Maria, Yes, there may be false people in all social movements, but in my experience, most people attempting to help are decent people doing whatever they can. Being sceptical is fine, but many people in social and ecology movements are sincere, serious, and effective. Most of them also have families and communities that they are trying to protect. Consider that most positive change in society is led by common citizens who stand up for ethics, justice, and common decency.

I had been surprised by the climate changes, when I took my American children to Lithuania and promissed them that they would have great winters with lots of snow, winter sports, and fun. But, during the winter of 2007-2008 we just had couple weeks of snow! That kind of change in a decade since I had there, was shocking to me. Where have those looong bright with snow, crisp winters gone!

Children are overstimulated by “screens” (computer, tv, psp…) and non stop images compressed within the time frame. Overstimulated minds demand more and more and more. Contemporary sickness – attension deficit disorder. Overstimulated sick mind can not stay in one place, it has to constantly move and travel. Who has time any more for local tradition and special places like home?

To be moving today means more carbon in, oxygen out. By the way, would it be logical to consider the rates of the oxygen consumption by humankind along with the carbon output while making models of the rates of GW.?

Rex Weyler

Climatologists do track oxygen content in the atmosphere. Photosynthesis in all plants breaths out oxygen, but as we reduce forest cover and increase desert, we are reducing planetary photosynthesis and oxygen production. We are changing the composition of the atmposphere, adding more CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, and other pollutants. Often, all these are expressed as “equivalent of CO2,” but all these atmopsheric gases, including oxygen, are being monitored.

Thanks. rw.

It could also be said in reverse. “Never doubt that a small group of self-serving bullies can destroy the planet; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

Who are these people? Someone who is lying will not look you in the eye, but they might use familiar words to make you feel at home. A 10% are not very good odds on our very existence.

But there is more. Says Barry Saunders: “The military produces enough greenhouse gases, by itself, to place the entire globe…in the most imminent danger of extinction.”

Scientists have been wondering why global warming has been happening faster than the fastest of predictions. Geologists have been estimating much faster depletion rates of oil. In the midst of all this, the military has not been expected to even keep records of the oil it consumes while killing innocent Iraqis and Afghanis. “The military is consuming fuel out of proportion to nations 200 times its size.” (Saunders) We have no records of exactly how much. And our paper money paid for it. These are wars against all people. The unjust war in Iraq, all wars, will be our four horsemen.

Is this something for our journalists to report to the people of the world? Hell no, let’s quote the pawns discussing 10% chance of survival. Or better yet: Let’s get a shot of Michael Jackson’s gloves one … last… time.

I try not to ride in that car, Kathy, and the view from the outside is watching that car drive faster than I can walk, stereo blaring, into the flat end of the world.

They’ll be sorely surprised when they find out that our consumption patterns are not sustainable just because we build hybrid cars and windmills.

Too bad the economics departments in our universities don’t offer their students some basic courses in physics and biology, not to mention morals and ethics.

You are being too kind here. Gore can spend something crazy like $10,000 a month on electrical bills and he wants the best for the human family? No, he’s a part of the power elite. He IS the father. He’s a player. He’s Daddy on steroids. He’s just Daddy with a hemp shirt.

Romm is delusional. Anyone who gets into a car filled with other people, drunk out of their minds, and says, “We have a 10% chance of making it home alive; it’s not a great shot, but no one else has offered to drive,” is insane. The people in the car, who nod their heads saying “Ummm, I guess so…” are insane. They are in it for the ride because to walk would be a pain in the ass. They will die, rather than walk.

The truth ISN’T that we need to look inside and not adjust to an insane culture. It isn’t to parent our children at home.

The answer, as I understand this article to say, is to recognize just how insane we are, and to be willing to sacrifice our place in the “in crowd” by pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes and that Romm sold us out to keep his place in the car.

Of course, only those who will agree that “no one can WALK?!” are allowed a public forum.

That’s the message I hear you say, and that message is one that calls for courage. We don’t need therapists healing our inner child. We need Mom to recognize that she’s not only abused, she’s abusive. She’s not doing “the best she could” for her family. She needs to get out of the car. She needs to realize that it will be really a drag to have to walk home, and that she gets a lot of benefits from staying, and she has to give those up.

But our metaphor falls short here, because none of us can get out of the car. The car is EARTH. But we do need to call for radical action, which is to challenge folks like Romm and Gore and not flatter them.

Corporations aren’t families. They are psychopathic institutions crafted to exploit their surroundings and generate profits for their shareholders. Corporations are the sociopaths in the room who will nod, learn the language, and then stab us and steal our wallets when we start to trust them. I’m not talking the CEO’s here. They are nice guys and gals with hearts, at least quite a few of them. I’m talking the STRUCTURE of the system, the core way it runs.

You and I know that the corporations now own politics. So, we can’t expect anything short of a full-blown revolution to turn this thing around.

I like the line “If you are keeping your head while others all around you are losing it, you haven’t fully grasped the situation.”

No one wants to say it, because we don’t want to be labeled “doom and gloom.” We want to be team players. We’d rather say “It is too LATE to be pessimists.” Truth is, it is too late to be inactive.

We have every reason to be pessimistic, but we have no reason to be hog-tied. We also have to figure out how to be effective, and we are all struggling with that question. Perhaps we can start by not being afraid to encourage fear as a normal and appropriate response to what we’re looking at. When people truly realize how dramatically late it is in the game, perhaps they will act in their own self-interest.

Rex Weyler:

Right. I was being polite, and perhaps too polite. When I see the Goldman-Sachs crowd lining up to make more billions of dollars in the “green” bonanza, I shudder at how far we remain from anything remotely sustainable. We’re a planet in overshoot, yet we want to stimulate and grow our consumption. It is insane. Thanks for reminding us.