In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'