There's All Of This Stuff Where We

We Know That If You Have $20 Million, It's Better To Buy A Van Gough Print Than It Is Buy An Executive Jet, From The Point Of View Of The Environment. But When You Start Getting Down, It's Like The Recycling Question: What Are Things We Can Really Afford To Do, And How Much Pleasure Do We Get Out Of Them? We Haven't Even Started To Have That Discussion, And It's Getting Awfully Late.

In Ten Years [i.e., 1980] All Important Animal Life In The Sea Will Be Extinct. Large Areas Of Coastline Will Have To Be Evacuated Because Of The Stench Of Dead Fish.

There's All Of This Stuff Where We Have So Much Debate Over Nonsense; It Could Be Cured If We Had A Better Educational System, If We Trained People To Really Try And Look Into Things On Their Own. That's A Tough Thing To Do, Particularly With The Educational System Staggering.

We've All Got To Get Together And Demand Something Better Out Of Our Government And Out Of Each Other. We've Got A System That's Making Us Working Harder, And Isn't Giving Us Satisfaction. We've Got To Sit Down And Decide What The Hell We Really Want To Be As Human Beings.

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.