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We Ought To Take Good Care Of Everybody We Have On The Planet, But We Ought To Regulate The Rate At Which People Join Us. The Old Saying Is, "it's The Top Of The Ninth Inning, And Humanity Has Been Hitting Nature Hard, But You've Always Got To Remember That Nature Bats Last."

Chinese Are Already More On Board Than We Are. China Is The Only Country That Actually Discussed In Formal Government Documents How Important It Is To Control The Size Of Your Populations If You’re Going To Limit Emissions.

After The Bomb We Developed A Fairly Good System For Moving Food Around And Have Avoided The Kind Of Massive Famines That Attract The Media. Although Of Course We've Had A Fair Number Of Them, Particularly In Africa, Since The Bomb Was Written. But We Have Had A Steady Level Of Attrition Of Malnutrition And Malnutrition-related Disease. Probably Something On The Order Of 5 To 10 Million People Starve To Death Each Year, But They're Spread Out; They're Not Dramatic News Events.

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.

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.