There Are Substitutes For Oil; There Is

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.

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.

Woman Should Have The Choice Whether To Have An Abortion Or Not, But I Like What Bill Clinton Said: It Ought To Be Safe And Rare. You Don't Want To Offend People With It. You Try And Do As Much As You Can To Let People Be Different, But Also To Try And Protect Them From Things That They Think Are Bad. And It's Worth All Of Us Giving A Little.

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.

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.