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People Have Not Made The Connection That The More Of Us There Are, The More Greenhouse Gases Go Into The Atmosphere. The Chinese Have. They, Unlike Us, Have A Population Policy. The Right Wingers Just Don't Understand That The Country They're In Is Probably The Most Overpopulated In The World, The One Doing Most Of The Destruction, And The One With Horrendously Bad Leadership.

People Have To Decide, First Of All, How They'd Like To Live, And How Secure They Want To Be From Disaster. After That, Scientists Can Help Determine What Would Be Necessary To Achieve That.

We Know That If You Have $20 Million, It's Better To Buy A Van Gough Print Than It Is Buy An Executive Jet, From The Point Of View Of The Environment. But When You Start Getting Down, It's Like The Recycling Question: What Are Things We Can Really Afford To Do, And How Much Pleasure Do We Get Out Of Them? We Haven't Even Started To Have That Discussion, And It's Getting Awfully Late.

Your Children Should Have It Impressed Upon Them That Their Adult Life-style Will Bear Very Little Resemblance To Yours And That They Should Now Be Acquiring Knowledge, Skills, Values, And Tastes That Will Sustain Them In Less Materially Affluent Circumstances. On The Other Hand, The Fresh Insights And Imaginations Of Your Children May Help You Find A Viable Future While There's Still Time.

In Pushing Other Species To Extinction, Humanity Is Busy Sawing Off The Limb On Which It Perches.