Occupation: Population Biologist Birth: May 29, 1932
Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even though th….
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 -….
Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many of the native pollinato….
I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery..
With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism. People make their own ….
If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too slowly, than I….
I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about….
Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed wheth….
Recycling helps make people feel involved, and in some cases can be useful. Although you've got to do careful life history studies of what you're rec….