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Our Globe Is Under New Dramatic Environmental Pressure: Our Globe Is Warming, Our Ice Caps Melting, Our Glaciers Receding, Our Coral Is Dying, Our Soils Are Eroding, Our Water Tables Falling, Our Fisheries Are Being Depleted, Our Remaining Rainforests Shrinking. Something Is Very, Very Wrong With Our Eco-system.

Let Me Offer You, Metaphorically, Two Magic Wands That Have Sweeping Powers To Change Society. With One Wand You Could Wipe Out All Racism And Discrimination From The Hearts And Minds Of White America. The Other Wand You Could Wave Across The Ghettoes And Barrios Of America And Infuse The Inhabitants With Japanese Or Jewish Values, Respect For Learning, And Ambition. ... I Suggest That The Best Wand For Society And For Those Who Live In The Ghettoes And Barrios Would Be The Second Wand.

The Biggest Challenge Of Public Policy Is To Know When And How The World Has Changed. We Are No Longer An Empty Continent With Endless Absorptive Capacity. We Have A Cash-wage Economy That Is Having Terrible Problems Finding Jobs For Its Own People. The Concern About Immigration Is Not Nativism But Common Sense.

Amnesty Is A Big Billboard, A Flashing Billboard, To The Rest Of The World That We Don't Really Mean Our Immigration Law.

I Think Modern Societies Have To Ask A Very Basic Question: What Strategies Buy The Most Health For People? Doctors Can Do So Many Marvelous Things Now. They Can Keep A Corpse Alive, Almost.