Most Of The Scientists I Know Think

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.

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.

I Kind Of Like Carbon Taxes Because We Already Know How To Apply Them. We Already Have Apparatus In Place. When We Talk About These Other Solutions - Like A Billion Tons Of Iron Filings In The Ocean Or Putting Sunshades Between Us And The Sun - They're Huge. We Have No Idea If They Will Work. We Have No Idea What Their Nasty Consequences Might Be. And It's Unlikely We Can Do Them Anyway.

With Taxes, If They Aren't Working Right, We Can Change Them With A Stroke Of The Pen. It's Basically A Market-type Mechanism. People Make Their Own Choices. You Run The Taxes, And You Get The Results.

There Are Lots Of Excellent Analysts Out There. John Holdren At The Harvard Kennedy School, Who Was Just President Of The American Association For The Advancement Of Science, Has Been Talking About This Stuff For Years. There Are Lots Of People Out There Who Understand What’s Going On. The Problem Is, They Aren’t Much Picked Up On Fox News.