Im No Expert On American Politics.

Surely The Biggest Problem We Have In The World Is That We All Die. But We Don't Have A Technology To Solve That, Right? So The Point Is Not To Prioritize Problems; The Point Is To Prioritize Solutions To Problems.

I Found University A Little Dispiriting. I Thought I Would Enter The Great Halls Of Plato, But Instead I Entered The Halls Of An Intellectual Sausage Factory. I Wanted To Do Something Not On The Main Course, And Chose The Environment.

It Seems Incontrovertible To Me That There Is A Global Warming Effect And That It Is Going To Be Serious, Probably Not In The Amount Of, Say, Six Degrees Warming, But It's Likely That We'll Get Two To Three Degrees Warming And That Will Be Serious Enough.

So It's Mainly A Question Of Helping The Third World Overcome The Effects Of Global Warming.

In The Rich World, The Environmental Situation Has Improved Dramatically. In The United States, The Most Important Environmental Indicator, Particulate Air Pollution, Has Been Cut By More Than Half Since 1955, Rivers And Coastal Waters Have Dramatically Improved, And Forests Are Increasing.