What degree of arrogance is required to cause us to act as though we have invincible impunity? What sort of distorted thinking is required to allow us to actually believe that we can do (or not do) whatever is expedient without future consequence or reprisal? I followed up my viewing of An Inconvenient Truth with Tom Brokaw’s 2-hour special on the Discovery channel, Global Warming: What You Need to Know, and I am even more riled by an ignorance that borders on stupidity with regard to the contention that the jury is still out on the truth of global warming. There is simply no more important issue facing humankind. Whatever differences we think are worth fighting for, they must be laid aside for the present so that we can preserve a future in which we can once again pick up arms if we then believe that such a thing is still necessary.