The Earth Is Not 6,000 Or 10,000

Television Isn't Inherently Good Or Bad. You Go To A Bookstore, There Are How Many Thousands Of Books, But How Many Of Those Do You Want? Five? Television's The Same Way. If You're Going To Show People Stuff, Television Is The Way To Go. Words And Pictures Show Things.

Not Wasting Any Water Bottles Is Good. Not Leaving The Lights On Is Good. Turning The Thermostat Down In The Winter, Up In The Summer, Is Good. But The Best Thing Any Of Us In The Developed World, Especially In The United States, Can Be Doing Is Talking About It.

Everybody Remembers Numbers And Computers Remember Numbers. People Remember Procedures And Computers Certainly Remember Procedures. But The Other Thing That's Still Important Is That Your Perception As A Human Is Affected Subtly By All This Stuff That You Can't Quite Articulate. You Run Your Life According To All This Stuff That's Happened To You. All Of Your Memories Affect Everything You Do Whereas With A Computer, There's Adaptive Software And Things, But It's More Literal.

I Like To Regard Myself As Someone Who's Capable Of Critical Thought, That Is To Say, Who Can Evaluate Claims.

Recommending Or Insisting On Abstinence Has Been Completely Ineffective.