We Need To Invest Dramatically In Green

I Think Al Gore Has Done A Great Service In Making Global Warming Cool. He's Basically Taken It From A Nerdy, Almost Ignored Issue To Making It What It Is - Namely, A Problem.

To Prepare Adequately For The Challenge Of Global Warming, We Must Acknowledge Both The Good And The Bad That It Will Bring. If Our Starting Point Is To Prove That Armageddon Is On Its Way, We Will Not Consider All Of The Evidence, And Will Not Identify The Smartest Policy Choices.

I'm A Vegetarian, But I Don't Expect Other People Not To Eat Meat.

When Thinking About The Future, It Is Fashionable To Be Pessimistic. Yet The Evidence Unequivocally Belies Such Pessimism. Over The Past Centuries, Humanity's Lot Has Improved Dramatically - In The Developed World, Where It Is Rather Obvious, But Also In The Developing World, Where Life Expectancy Has More Than Doubled In The Past 100 Years.

We Worry About The Seemingly Ever-increasing Number Of Natural Catastrophes. Yet This Is Mainly A Consequence Of Cnn - We See Many More, But The Number Is Roughly Constant, And We Manage To Deal Much Better With Them Over Time. Globally, The Death Rate From Catastrophes Has Dropped About Fifty-fold Over The Past Century.