This is the age of compromise. Fatty food that tastes great or healthy food that tastes like crap. Experience or change. Career or motherhood. The space, comfort, luxury and straight-up blingness of a souped-up Escalade or the quiet efficiency of a Toyota Prius. It just seems like we can't have it all. And this is most apparent when we're talking about the future of the earth. Scarce resources, by their very definition, are trade offs. So, reducing CO2 emissions has the effect of restricting production. Limiting oil exploration in the US increases our dependence on foreign oil (at l ...