The evidence we have is that toxics reduce the intelligence of children, and members of the first heavily influenced generation are now adults. The f… - Paul R. Ehrlich

If everyone consumed resources at the US level – which is what the world aspires to – you will need another four or five Earths.

Too many rich people in the world is a major threat to the human future, and cultural and genetic diversity are great human resources.

The idea that we can just keep growing forever on a finite planet is totally imbecilic.... Julian Simon, a professor of junkmail marketing, and his kind, think technology will solve everything.... We can use up the Earth then we can just jump into spaceships and fly somewhere else.... Technology does nothing to solve problems of biodiversity or living space or arable cropland.... Fresh water and arable cropland are finite resources.... We are already far beyond what we can support sustainably.... The provincial view you get from someone living in some wealthy American East Coast city is wildly different from reality. Most of the world is tropical, hungry and poor. Visit the developing world and southern hemisphere and you get a very different view of reality.