The Labour MP said that one thing individuals could do to act on climate change was to ask their pension funds whether they were invested in fossil fuels.
Of course, the one thing individuals are more likely to do under the influence of sedative drugs or hypnosis is respond to suggestion.
Sports, he said, is "the one thing that individual has had that took them to a height where there was adulation and they were totally confident of their skill -- and that became their life".
Pollan's the most high-profile combatant in the grow-your-own guerrilla campaign, his latest contribution being a piece in Sunday's New York Times Magazine's "green" issue that cites planting a vegetable garden as one thing an individual can do to combat climate change and shorten the food chain.
"It's one thing for individuals to be nimble mentally.
I am, for one thing, an eminently trustworthy individual, one who can be relied on to help redeem $250 million in misallocated funds from Nigerian army accounts, and an equally substantial amount from the Congo, and to do so in the strictest confidence.
"It creates a nightmare of hundreds of thousands of work hours, will mean thousands of trees will have to be destroyed AND will not do one thing to curb any individuals that are set on breaking any jurisdictional rules, as they are certainly not going to enter information that would be self-incriminating," Dr. Stephen J. Selway, a New York veterinarian, wrote in comments to the board.
London Welsh coach Justin Burnell: "We scored four tries and we were able to compete but it's coming back to the same old thing, unfortunately: four one-on-one individual errors - four tries.
No matter the size of the hurdle or the individual outcome, these stories hold one thing in common: each is an individual story of someone exercising what control they had available at the time, even if the only control at the time, as in the case of Viktor Frankl, happened to be in the attitude they chose to adopt.
And because works of fiction are invariably about individuals, one thing they can do very well is explore the ways in which ideological doctrines, or any systems of belief, clash with individual freedom.
