The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.

Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants’ destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world.

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.