The one that requires air travel.

Candidate for Most Important Article to Read in the First Quarter of 2006 is George Monbiot's We Are All Killers Until We Stop Flying (http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=56&ItemID=9814) .

I don't speak from some ethereal position on this issue. Rather, my partner Sylvie and I have already essentially shelved all plans related to our bread and butter concerns, French Paint box (www.frenchpaintbox.com) and Paris Graves (http://www.parisgraves.com). We're switching gears on a very personal, pocketbook level.

We give a flying F. Yep, at this juncture I would say our stance is better than our would-be clientele. I trust that that wouldn't be the Comparative Case with YOU.

Like Monbiot says, -the moral dissonance is deafening- when one confronts friends or anyone with injunctions respecting Fun Time. Be that as it may, The Priority Challenge then becomes Intimate Confrontation between activists/concerned citizens, not Diverting/Distracting Marches Against The Powers. Or Continual PC Complaining.

Yes, of course, pressure must be exerted upon governments to create a revolution vis-Ã -vis air travel –to stop, then reverse, the current momentum which projects Planet Death by Plane– but zero will be accomplished on that front if we're not addressing this issue quietly, tactfully with neighbors-regularly. Obviously, we cannot count on media outlets to educate the public sufficiently in time.

On what authority do I speak? Read Georgie's piece of pathos. And keep in mind, if you will, that you will have an impact on other issues by killing this Birdbrain (Wing) Fever.

I've been writing China-related articles of late, having totally immersed myself in The Way of Cathay. However, even if I were a fanatic Rolling Stones fan with money to burn-I wouldn't go to Beijing for their first concert in China. Not unless it was by way of that proverbial Slow Boat. And let me get your goat in that regard for the upcoming 2008 Celestial Olympics overseas. Cancel THAT too.

But the Blue Boo-Hoo really lies far from the Bamboo Curtain. It resides in what you do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do-to help us get through the coming days without The Growth, the nonstop flight of Entitlement.

Richard Oxman, info@parisgraves.com, asks readers to set priorities respecting the requisite revolution in thinking posed here, and invites contact. Other options include getting busy vis-Ã -vis www.monbiot.com.