upon industry to pay taxes, employ workers, supply their military machine. All the systems, the bureaucracies, financial and banking, academia, trade and transport, etc, etc, are all intricately interwoven and interdependent. And ultimately, all dependent upon oil. Ask them to dismantle all that, and lose their power-base, the thing that has motivated them all of their lives ? All the individuals working in the system, perhaps 90% of the population, have their stories in their heads, of social advancement, of better houses and cars, longer holidays, opportunities for their children, etc. All the people in the media, advertising and academia, are hooked in to the broader cultural narrative. That professor of climate at the Indian conference, from Arizona Uni, must know all the data that Guy and Joe Romm know, yet he's cheerfully talking about stuff in 'a hundred years time', as if there'll be no great problem between now and then. All those guys, from the elite, fading down to the working class, all have their futures and pensions to worry about, have all been programmed by tv and 'education' to expect a particular story to play out. Then we've got international competition. BP's biggest customer is the US military, the world's biggest single polluter. And who owns BP ? Mostly UK pension funds and the Queen, isn't it ? Maybe some big banks too. All those retired bureaucrats and upper class private pension holders, living comfortably. Whose going to tell them they have to drop down to the