The speed and extent of the financial sector's massive bailout shows what is possible when society perceives a calamitous problem and rises swiftly to the challenge. If fat cat bankers are deserving, the biosphere and global ecological systems are much more worthy of a bailout. Global ecological sus

The speed and extent of the financial sector's massive bailout shows what is possible when society perceives a calamitous problem and rises swiftly to the challenge. If fat cat bankers are deserving, the biosphere and global ecological systems are much more worthy of a bailout. Global ecological sustainability is threatened [action] by a massive ecological bubble [search] -- whereby there are not enough intact global terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems to maintain life.

Now this -- the destruction of our very being -- is a crisis worthy of some serious emergency funding. A recent Guardian column shows what the $2-4 trillion financial bailout could achieve if invested for the environment [ark] . It notes funding on this "scale to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect nature would... be repaid up to 100 times over."