Reaction to 2010 U.S. Midterm election results

As an advocate for facing up to climate change as the largest challenge of human existence, the November 2 Republican backlash and Democratic losses sadden me greatly.  I only wish I could take back all the American greed, ignorance and naïveté of a plurality of my countrymen.  Instead I must apologize from the bottom of my heart to the vast majority, the poor, the coastal and the unborn, for what now seems the willful cowardice of a once-great nation.  Yet hope remains that this adolescent behavior will pass like a bad meal, and that we shall all sit down together to share an equitable banquet under the given measure of earth’s sunshine.  Until that day, many suffer and we toil in vanity.