I Read A Lot Of Scripts And

I Don't Get Much Out Of Doing A Red Carpet.

Most Of Us Still Believe In The Intrinsic Value Of Nature, But I Think The First Century Of The Environmental/conservation Movement Demonstrated Pretty Clearly That This Value Cannot Compel A Civilization-wide Shift Toward Sustainable Behavior And Enterprise When Stacked Up Against The Urgent Economic And Social Needs Of 7 Billion People, Most Of Whom Are Struggling To Get Out Of Poverty.

Unpopular Speech Is Absolutely Vital To The Health Of Our Nation.

I Almost Forgot What It's Like To Be Proud Of My Government.

I'd Say That, In Addition To Actually Taking My Brother And Sister And I Camping And Hiking And River Rafting All Our Lives And Introducing Us To The Power Of Natural Landscapes, His [my Father's] Biggest Impact On My Thinking Has Been To Always Argue That The "spiritual Case For Nature" Was Not Going To Outweigh The Needs Of 7 Billion People And To Insist That Law, Science And Economics Were The Critical Frameworks Through Which We Had To Defend The Value Of Nature.