By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior. It is an idea which deeply startles us, and in the process, may help us as a species to make the necessary jump to planetary awareness.

By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.