text: I just stated a basic truth; voluntary changes in individual behavior won't solve the ecological crisis. The Pope just put it well, alluding to the Bible, when he said "Man is stupid.  When you don't want to see, you don't see." 
  
  Only action by the state will create the universal shift in consumption and production needed to address the ecological crisis.  Conservatives are in denial. They need adult supervision, but, like the spoiled children they are despise any limits on their selfishness, even those that are designed to protect them from themselves.