Too true Mike, but, as you say, we have no experience with a disaster of this scale. We are, however, very familiar with the fascist response, and that is the only prep we seem to be hell bent on. Nazis with Nukes, will be just lovely, and the only upside is that the end will be swift. I was in Washington harping about climate change 40 years ago, and the response then and the response now is "so?" Only now you would get a ton more deaths threats. As for our rabidly anti-ecological economy, note: http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue102/Daneke102.pdf