Essay by Jason Miller - NASA scientist James Hansen warned newly elected President Obama

"On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded." –Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) from “Dreams and Facts” Russell’s nihilistic characterization of Homo sapiens injects some much-needed perspective into a