Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species