It feels as if the more I go in one direction, the more the rest of the world goes in the other.

My in-laws are a lost cause. I can make immediate ground in most discussions, but give it a day and they're back to their same FUD arguments that I'd just taken down the day before.

The pitiable thing about their position is, I think, that they want the lifestyle they lived for their kids and grandkids, and think that this "green scam" will impoverish and threaten the viability of their extending family.

Unfortunately the future could be much worse than that, but for basically the opposite reason.

It's surreal watching human denial working in real-time.