I Kind Of Like Carbon Taxes Because

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're One Of The Most Highly Regulated Industries, And We Have To Pay Attention To What Government Is Doing.

In Pushing Other Species To Extinction, Humanity Is Busy Sawing Off The Limb On Which It Perches.

Organisms Are Starting To Move In Response To Climate Change All Over The Place. Bees Are Disappearing And We Don't Have Many Of The Native Pollinators Left To Replace Them. We're In Deep Trouble; There's No Question About It. But Ecologists Tend To Think Of Something That's Going To Be Bad In Ten Years As Very Fast, And Of Course, Politicians Only Think Of Things In A Two-, Four-, Six-year Cycle.

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.