One week before the President's sure-to-be-fib-filled State of the Union address, check out the State of the World instead -- a very gloomy report from the Worldwatch Institute. Basically, the "unprecedented consumer appetite is undermining the natural systems we all depend on, and making it even harder for the world's poor to meet their basic needs." I bet President Pollyanna doesn't mention a word about this in his speech, though.