The Position I Took At The Time

I Know Quite A Few Farmers All Over The United States Who Have Tried This And Have Said The Opposite, That They Have To Use More Herbicides, Not Less. The Same Holds True With Bt.

The Greenhouse Crisis Is The Bill Coming Due For The Industrial Revolution. It's Not An Accident. It's The Logical Outcome Of Our World View - The Idea That We Can Control The Forces Of Nature, That We Can Have Short-term Expedient Gains Without Paying For Them, That There Are No Limits To Exploitation Of The Environment, That We Can Produce And Consume Faster Than Nature's Ability To Replenish.

Solar And Wind Are Now Cheaper In Many Places Than Some Fossil Fuels And Within The Next Two Years, Three, Four, Five Years At The Most. What The Exponential Curve Does Isn't Going To Go Away. It Is Totally Over For Fossil Fuels And Nuclear. Nuclear's Actually Gone Out.

We Are Already Producing Enough Food To Feed The World. We Already Have Technology In Place That Allows Us To Produce More Than We Can Find A Market For.

The Revolution Here Is From Hierarchical To Lateral Power. That's The Power Shift. So Increasingly A Younger Generation That's Grown Up On The Internet And Now Increasingly Distributing Renewable Energies, They're Measuring Politics In Terms Of A Struggle Between Centralized, Hierarchical, Top-down And Closed And Proprietary, Versus Distributed, Open, Collaborative, Transparent. This Shift, From Hierarchical To Lateral Power, Is Going To Change The Way We Live, The Way We Educate Our Children, And The Way We Govern The World.