By 1985 Enough Millions Will Have Died

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."

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.

Sometimes I Think The Congress Feels That If You Only Decided Tomorrow To Switch To Wind Power That In Two Years We'd Be Getting 80 Percent Of Our Electricity From Wind Power. It's Nonsense. Normally It Takes 20 To 30 Years After A New Technology Is Demonstrated And Deployed Before It Powers Even 15 Or 20 Percent Of The Grid. There's This Long Lag Time, And We Haven't Even Decided Which Directions To Go.

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.

Solving The Population Problem Is Not Going To Solve The Problems Of Racism, Of Sexism, Of Religious Intolerance, Of War, Of Gross Economic Inequality. But If You Don't Solve The Population Problem, You're Not Going To Solve Any Of Those Problems. Whatever Problem You're Interested In, You're Not Going To Solve It Unless You Also Solve The Population Problem. Whatever Your Cause, It's A Lost Cause Without Population Control.