2,000 watts

The power's off.

It might be too dark to make connections, but I can try.

If I hold the New York Times close enough to the window, I can read the headline: "Many Feel American Dream Is Out of Reach, Poll Shows".

The storm's outside, everybody said it was coming, now it's entered my house and all the other little houses in the neighborhood. No power, no light, no heat, no hot water. Big rain, rain drops bouncing like basketballs on the street. Big winds from the Southwest going right through the trees. Everybody here in the same boat this morning, no power.

"A painful reality behind the environmental movement's catastrophic failure to effectively battle the economic interests behind our soaring emissions is that large parts of the movement aren't actually fighting those interests – they have merged with them," writes Naomi Klein in her new book, "This Changes Everything."

Note to John Kerry: if you were really serious about climate change you wouldn't go anywhere unless you could go there by walking or by riding your bike. But you keep flying around the world trying to solve everything, just like a drone.

Note to myself: join the 2,000 Watt Society and try to consume no more energy than 2,000 watts per day, for one whole year, sometime before I die.