Arnie to auto-makers: I'll be back

One of the strategies of the fossil-fuel lobby is to confuse people down to a state of hopelessness - the argument you hear goes, "It's sheer arrogance to think that mankind can affect something as big as the atmosphere." It's fatalistc, wrong and dangerous.Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.Arnold