Im No Expert On American Politics.

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.

The Fact That We're Catching More Fish Per Person Than We've Ever Done Before Doesn't Mean That There Are Not Particular Places Where We've Managed Fisheries Badly.

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.

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.

Money Spent On Carbon Cuts Is Money We Can't Use For Effective Investments In Food Aid, Micronutrients, Hiv/aids Prevention, Health And Education Infrastructure, And Clean Water And Sanitation.