Taking our eye off the ball.

It has been clearly established that Global warming is a major threat.

Nobody knowledgeable questions that if nothing is done, the world's average temperate will continue to rise until humans cannot survive on the planet.

The unknowns are:

1. When this will happen.

2. Whether this rise can be reversed.

Many eminent scientists believe that the temperature is rising much faster than most had expected as evidenced by the melting in the polar regions.

Others of equal caliber believe that only a massive change of carbon emissions resulting in carbon being actually taken out of the cycle has any hope of saving us. This can only be done by burying carbon/charcoal.

Yet we as a community seem incapable of focusing on the most important issues and allow ourselves to be distracted by swine 'flu, the banking crisis, terrorists, dog shit or whatever the press, the public choose in order to avoid facing reality.

When are we all going to wake up?

We all need to give ten percent of our time trying to understand the bigger issues.

The performance of Manchester United, the latest design of camera, the latest in fashion design, the life of Jade Goody, the career of Kate Winslet ; all these are insignificant compared with our three main problems:

1. Global warming.

2. The running out of the worlds resources in particular oil which will lead to increasing food prices.

3. The social unrest arising out of the perceived injustice of the credit crunch.

Everything else to my way of thinking, pales into insignificance.

We all need to face reality and not continue to allow the press or others to encourage us to look in the sand for answers like Ostriches.