it's the end of the world as we know it, and i feel fine..

Just a thought, but will America ever really embrace sustainable environmentally-conscious technology when recent polls have shown that 44 percent of Americans think Jesus will likely return to Earth within the next 50 years? After all, why worry about global warming when the the end of civilization seems like such a cool idea? (Although some would disagree.) Could this be why Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, was so relieved to announce in September 2006 that "Fortunately, the media's addiction to so-called 'climate porn' [i.e. Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth] has failed to seduce many Americans"?