The Main Thing Is, And Of Course

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.

Stanford May Be The Best University In The World, But You Can Get All The Way Through Here Without Knowing Where Your Food Came From, Without Being Able To Say Where We Came From, Without Being Able To Give A Coherent Description Of Why The Climate Is Changing And Why We Should Be Concerned About It. So I Started Teaching A Course In Human Evolution And The Environment That's Open To All Stanford Students, No Prerequisites.

Here's The Scientific Community Saying, Fundamentally, "if We Don't Change Our Ways, We're Screwed." And They Got No Attention At All. Even Though The Union Of Concerned Scientists Put Out This Statement Which Was Signed By More Than Half Of All The Nobel Laureates In Science And Another 1,500 Distinguished Scientists.

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

Recycling Helps Make People Feel Involved, And In Some Cases Can Be Useful. Although You've Got To Do Careful Life History Studies Of What You're Recycling. If All You're Doing Is Recycling - If You've Got Three Automobiles, And 10 Children, And A 7,000-square-foot Dot-com Palace And Second Home Up In The Mountains That Has To Be Heated - The Recycling Isn't Making Much Difference.