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Overall, The Population Bomb Was Probably Too Optimistic. I Was Writing About Climate Change - Anne And I Actually Wrote The Book. We Discussed Whether Or Not You'd Have To Take A Gondola To The Empire State Building, And That Sort Of Thing, But We Didn't Know At The Time Whether The Climate Change Would Be In The Direction Of Heating Or Cooling. We Just Didn't Know Enough About It.

I Don't Think Scientists Can Dictate From Above What We Should Do, Because It's Not A Matter Of Scientific Decision. If You Want To Have Everybody Living Like A Beverly Hills Millionaire, Then 2 Billion People Might Be Too Many. If We Want To Have A Battery-chicken Kind Of World, With Everybody Having An Absolute Minimum Diet, You Might Be Able To Support 10 Billion.

I'm Sort Of Optimistic About What We Could Do, But I'm Very Pessimistic About What We Will Do. I Can't Tell You That Al Gore's 10-year Plan Is Impossible. I'm Old Enough To Remember The Second World War - If We Had A World War Ii-type Mobilization, We Might Accomplish Gore's Plan. In 1940 We Were Making Tens Of Thousands Of Automobiles, And In 1941 We Were Making Tens Of Thousands Of Airplanes. We Mobilized As A Nation. If We Get That Kind Of Mobilization As A Nation Or Globally, Then We Could Solve A Lot Of These Problems.

For Example, I'm A Great Fan Of Pornography, But I Don't See Any Reason Not To Restrict It So That People Walking Down The Street Who Hate Pornography Don't Have Full Color Pictures Outside Of Movie Theaters. Let Them Be In A Different District. I'm Kidding About Pornography, But You Get The Point.

If We Were Redesigning Around People Instead Of Around Automobiles, Which I Think The Market Is More Or Less Going To Do, Although Too Slowly, Than I'd Be A Lot Cheerier.