I See Harm Reduction As A Way

All Scientists Who've Looked At It Know We Have To Phase Away From Burning Fossil Fuels. That Means We've Got To Put A Lot Of Effort Into Alternate Energy Technologies, But We're Still Subsidizing Fossil Fuels And Not Subsidizing Most Of The Alternatives. It's Not Going To Be An Easy Transition.

The National Academy Of Sciences Would Be Unable To Give A Unanimous Decision If Asked Whether The Sun Would Rise Tomorrow.

Stanford May Be The Best University In The World, But You Can Get All The Way Through Here Without Knowing Where Your Food Came From, Without Being Able To Say Where We Came From, Without Being Able To Give A Coherent Description Of Why The Climate Is Changing And Why We Should Be Concerned About It. So I Started Teaching A Course In Human Evolution And The Environment That's Open To All Stanford Students, No Prerequisites.

My First Policy Move Would Be To Try To Get A Conversation Going In The Us About What People Stand For And What We Really Want. Do We Want To Keep Adding People To The World And To Our Country Until We Move To A Battery-chicken Kind Of Existence And Then Collapse? Or Do We Want To Think Hard About What Really Is Valuable To Us, And Figure Out How Many People We Can Supply That To Sustainably?

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.