the Age of Aquarius

Although, reading posts from this site is like talking to the local vagabond, this post seems more fitting of the times. Without prefacing the entire site by reading the book 2012, which i painstakingly have done, superimpose the age of fire into the environmental crisis. As what some would call a caustic age, comes to an end, what better way to quench it than with water. With some Boulder egg-heads giving a time-line of 5-10 years for the ice caps to melts. More water than we can deal with might be upon us. On the same note, companies are buying up water rights in fear that water will be the next precious commodity as oil is now. .
In the context of the environmental crisis there seems to be some camps forming, the ignorant right (nucUlear power and off shore drilling to the rescue!), environmental activists (lets make the changes that we haven't accomplished in the last 40 years), capitalists pigs (green business will survive cause that's what the people want), last and definitely the least the politicians (legislation will save us). I like two analogies to discount all of the above. clue: some of these are already disregarded.
When Apollo was in a dire situation, engineers, ironically in Houston(the irony will come), compiled everything the Apollo crew had at their disposal in a cardboard box and then spilled its contents on to the work bench. With a time-line of 5-10 years for drastically rearranging the face of our country, economy and world, we need to start looking for a cardboard box. I would give capitalist a fighting chance at accomplishing this.
The next analogy. As in many cases of cataclysm, people on 9/11 in the WTC stood waiting for someone to tell them what to do. Sadly enough, Americans are good at this, like lemmings we affably wait for someone to direct us. Capitalism would be good at this, HOWEVER, the education level on environmentally sound business is minimal. With many people, people with money I might add, willing to follow anyone willing to lead them, leaders that create results that raise us to higher ground might be engulfed in the elapsed clock of the next decade.
moral of the story: WERE ALL GONNA DIE! AAHHHHHHHHH!
no, no, no. We have a chance. What it is I don't know, but lets think about it. Take a shower (not to long, we might need the water) and lets start with a clean slate and think outside of the box.
some thinkers that might help, might be the reality sandwich, otherwise i rcommend checking out, James Kunstler, Barry schwartz, and for some sage like advice The Dali Lama.