Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.