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Chinese Are Already More On Board Than We Are. China Is The Only Country That Actually Discussed In Formal Government Documents How Important It Is To Control The Size Of Your Populations If You’re Going To Limit Emissions.

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.

It Turns Out The Population Issue Is An Easier Thing To Deal With Than The Consumption Issue. Some Obvious Extremes In Consumption We Can Deal With. The Standard Cure For A Stuttering Economy Is To Go Out And Buy An Suv And Three More Refrigerators. That's Obviously Not The Way To Go.

Most Of The Scientists I Know Think Civilization Is Teetering On The Brink Of A Global Disaster. They Just Don't Know When It's Going To Hit. I Don't Have The Answer To That Either. I'm Scared As Hell.

There Are Substitutes For Oil; There Is No Substitute For Fresh Water.