The climate continues to deteriorate.

Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]