It Turns Out The Population Issue Is

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.

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?

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.

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

Organisms Are Starting To Move In Response To Climate Change All Over The Place. Bees Are Disappearing And We Don't Have Many Of The Native Pollinators Left To Replace Them. We're In Deep Trouble; There's No Question About It. But Ecologists Tend To Think Of Something That's Going To Be Bad In Ten Years As Very Fast, And Of Course, Politicians Only Think Of Things In A Two-, Four-, Six-year Cycle.