My friend asked me to vote for her video on Current, an "ecospot" about the power of the individual to effect environmental change.  View and vote here.  While the videos are fun to watch and generally cute, I pause at the thought that these suggestions will bring about the scope of changes scientists say we need right now so that people my age can have kids in good conscience.  More convincing is the message of the op-ed someone else forwarded me this week.   In it, Thomas L. Friedman makes the argument - many times rehearsed at this point - that the only way to achieve change on any kind of scale is to vote it into existence.  As we survey the candidates, can we divide this issue out from all the other pressing concerns: Iraq, Darfour, health care - not to mention electability?  Not to be a Debbie Downer here, but it seems inevitable that a milquetoast compromise is the best we can hope for, and even then its implementation is in no way guaranteed.  Someone cheer me up here!