There Are Substitutes For Oil; There Is

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.

We Ought To Take Good Care Of Everybody We Have On The Planet, But We Ought To Regulate The Rate At Which People Join Us. The Old Saying Is, "it's The Top Of The Ninth Inning, And Humanity Has Been Hitting Nature Hard, But You've Always Got To Remember That Nature Bats Last."

There's All Of This Stuff Where We Have So Much Debate Over Nonsense; It Could Be Cured If We Had A Better Educational System, If We Trained People To Really Try And Look Into Things On Their Own. That's A Tough Thing To Do, Particularly With The Educational System Staggering.

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.

We're Never All Going To Agree With Each Other. We Have To Learn To Value The Diversity. It's One Of The Presumable Principles Of Our Government That Isn't Followed Nearly Enough - One Of The Jobs Of The Majority Is To Try And Make The Minority Feel Comfortable.