I Can Tell You That Second Hand

You Think You Can Destroy The Planet? What Intoxicating Vanity. . . . . We've Been Residents Here For The Blink Of An Eye. If We're Gone Tomorrow, The Earth Will Not Miss Us.

One Of The Most Difficult Features Of Direct Experience Is That It Is Unfiltered By Any Theories Or Expectations. It's Hard To Observe Without Imposing A Theory To Explain What We're Seeing, But The Trouble With Theories, As Einstein Said, Is That They Explain Not Only What Is Observed, But What Can Be Observed. We Start To Build Expectations Based On Our Theories.

Face The Facts, All These Environmental Organizations Are Thirty, Forty, Fifty Years Old. They Have Big Buildings, Big Obligations, Big Staffs. They May Trade On Their Youthful Dreams, But The Truth Is, They're Now Part Of The Establishment. And The Establishment Works To Preserve The Status Quo. It Just Does.

Malcolm: A Karate Master Does Not Kill People With His Bare Hands. He Does Not Lose His Temper And Kill His Wife. The Person Who Kills Is The Person Who Has No Discipline, No Restraint, And Who Has Purchased His Power In The Form Of A Saturday Night Special. And That Is Why You Think That To Build A Place Like This Is Simple. Hammond: It Was Simple. Malcolm: Then Why Did It Go Wrong?

Environmentalism Needs To Be Absolutely Based In Objective And Verifiable Science, It Needs To Be Rational, And It Needs To Be Flexible. And It Needs To Be Apolitical. To Mix Environmental Concerns With The Frantic Fantasies That People Have About One Political Party Or Another Is To Miss The Cold Truth - That There Is Very Little Difference Between The Parties, Except A Difference In Pandering Rhetoric.