There Are Substitutes For Oil; There Is

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.

Historically, Things Were Moving In A Pretty Good Direction Until The Reagan Presidency. And Then It All Got Reversed. The Mexico City Policy Was Instituted - The Idea Of Wrecking The Environment For This Generation's Profit And Forgetting About Our Gets Got Firmly Embedded. I'm Sad To Say The Clinton Administration Didn't Turn It Around And The Bush Administration, Well, I Think They're The Worst Administration We've Ever Had, And I Used To Be A Republican.

Actually, The Problem In The World Is That There Are Too Many Rich People.

With Taxes, If They Aren't Working Right, We Can Change Them With A Stroke Of The Pen. It's Basically A Market-type Mechanism. People Make Their Own Choices. You Run The Taxes, And You Get The Results.

Too Many Cars, Too Many Factories, Too Much Detergent, Too Much Pesticides, Multiplying Contrails, Inadequate Sewage Treatment Plants, Too Little Water, Too Much Carbon Dioxide - All Can Be Traced Easily To Too Many People.