Calling Tammy Faye Baker

Some days I feel like an evangelical lunatic, one botox-foreheaded, polyester suit-wearing and falsely-tanned husband away from being on those triple-digit channels spouting about the coming Rapture. During which all Humvee-driving fools will be swept into the smokestacks of Owens-Corning and slowly incinerated amid glass insulation fibers.
This might be one of those days. A few weeks ago I blogged about Garrett Hardin and his wise words on population growth, the tragedy of the commons, and our contribution to the demise of a planet humans want to live on (let's leave out the fact that I'm not sure we are any more deserving of a species for perpetuation than the fruitfly and frankly the fruitfly can survive much better than us fragile nancypantses).
This week Professor Landel has done it again and assigned a reading from The Sustainability Institute on leverage points in systems dynamics and how we can use our understanding of systems to affect profound change.
Ever since that epiphanous (made that word up) day running in the Oregon woods in December of 2005, I have been seeking numbers 1 & 2 & 3 on Donella Meadows' list without wavering. Sure, I'll spend plenty of times on numbers 4-12, with special emphasis on 9-12 as most junior-level marketers do (and appropriately so).
In my mind's eye it's always been 1 & 2 & 3. I just didn't know it by name until now. And no, I don't think aspiring for those three points makes me any more or less cool. It's just that important to me.
"Hallelujah Amerikkuh! I have seen the light and it's name is..."
(Never mind. Just read it.)