Julia Steinberger (Leeds) wrote: "Radical changes are needed if all people are to live well within the limits of the planet" but she got the timing wrong. Now,

Julia Steinberger (Leeds) wrote: "Radical changes are needed if all people are to live well within the limits of the planet" but she got the timing wrong. Now, I fear, we are too late. Consider: what is the likelihood that we can reach a global consensus on population control which will have any significant impact in the next 25 years? What social structure will suddenly appear which will change our value system? Who among us is going to be willing to give up our automobiles? And so forth. How can we have a future when we have a President who does not believe what scientists are telling him? How can we support leaders who have no understanding of the physical world? These are existential questions that need to be resolved quickly or all is lost. And they are being ignored.