Most Of The Scientists I Know Think

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.

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."

All Scientists Who've Looked At It Know We Have To Phase Away From Burning Fossil Fuels. That Means We've Got To Put A Lot Of Effort Into Alternate Energy Technologies, But We're Still Subsidizing Fossil Fuels And Not Subsidizing Most Of The Alternatives. It's Not Going To Be An Easy Transition.

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.

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?