Wishful Thinking Is Not Sound Public Policy.

...children Born Today-in Both The Industrialized World And Developing Countries-will Live Longer And Be Healthier, They Will Get More Food, A Better Education, A Higher Standard Of Living, More Leisure Time And Far More Possibilities-without The Global Environment Being Destroyed.

We Worry About The Seemingly Ever-increasing Number Of Natural Catastrophes. Yet This Is Mainly A Consequence Of Cnn - We See Many More, But The Number Is Roughly Constant, And We Manage To Deal Much Better With Them Over Time. Globally, The Death Rate From Catastrophes Has Dropped About Fifty-fold Over The Past Century.

In The Rich World, The Environmental Situation Has Improved Dramatically. In The United States, The Most Important Environmental Indicator, Particulate Air Pollution, Has Been Cut By More Than Half Since 1955, Rivers And Coastal Waters Have Dramatically Improved, And Forests Are Increasing.

I'm An Old Member Of Greenpeace. I Worried Intensely, As I Think Most Of My Friends Did, That The World Was Coming Apart.

Winter Regularly Takes Many More Lives Than Any Heat Wave: 25,000 To 50,000 Each Year Die In Britain From Excess Cold. Across Europe, There Are Six Times More Cold-related Deaths Than Heat-related Deaths...by 2050...warmer Temperatures Will Save 1.4 Million Lives Each Year.