In Pushing Other Species To Extinction, Humanity

The Main Thing Is, And Of Course This Is A Pedant Talking, We Should Start Our Education On These Issues In Kindergarten. Instead Of Saying, "see Spot Run," We Ought To Say, "see The Plant Grow In The Sun." We Ought To Explain What Runs The Weather In The Third Or Fourth Grade To Start Out With.

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.

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.

The Drilling Idea Is Spherically Senseless - It's Senseless From Whatever Point Of View You Look At It. It'd Take 10 Years To Bring Any Oil Online, And It Would Probably Go To Japan. It Sure Wouldn't Help Gasoline Prices Here. All The Economists Say Gasoline Is Still Too Cheap In The United States Anyway. So Here We're Having This Huge Debate Over Offshore Drilling That Is Just Straightforward Nonsense, Which Won't Surprise You.

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.