This month marks the 20-year anniversary of Earth Day and a new commitment to make the 1990s the Decade of the Environment. Maybe the flurry of media attention surrounding this event will shake us out of our sleep. In the last few years, I have become very frustrated by the feeling that we, as a civilization, are in the midst of a global crisis and are not responding appropriately to the scale of the events. Most of us seem numb to the claims of global climate change, ozone depletion, rainforest destruction, species extinc- tions, and so on. The changes being wrought by our way of life are so extensive, and the solutions so unimaginable, that the response is usually denial. I, for example, go on with life as usual or make minor concessions such as recycling or walking to work. But the really basic changes necessary to reverse the "inevitable" seem impossible. It is my opinion that the appropriate scale of my response should be to use a tenth of the resources I now use, rather