With Taxes, If They Aren't Working Right,

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.

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.

There Are A Lot Of Signs. One Of The Things That Makes Me Most Nervous Is The Disappearance Of The Frogs. They're Going Downhill All Over The Planet. Frogs Are Susceptible To All Kinds Of Problems, Because They Require Water To Breed And Their Skin Is Very Porous. Their Condition Is Nerve Racking.

My First Policy Move Would Be To Try To Get A Conversation Going In The Us About What People Stand For And What We Really Want. Do We Want To Keep Adding People To The World And To Our Country Until We Move To A Battery-chicken Kind Of Existence And Then Collapse? Or Do We Want To Think Hard About What Really Is Valuable To Us, And Figure Out How Many People We Can Supply That To Sustainably?

So, Regarding The Time Frame, I'm Only Too Willing To Admit That My Crystal Ball, Like Everybody Else's, Is Cracked. If I Could Predict Precisely, I Would Have Started Predicting The Stock Market And Would Now Be Living With A Bunch Of Young Women On Bora Bora, Having Bought It.