Gregg Easterbrook's article from The Atlantic offers a very reasonable response to the emotional appeal of the Gore's Inconvenient Truth. The United States is a country of innovators and problem solvers, and he presents evidence that American solutions to past enviornmental problems have resolved some pollution issues. It makes sense that scientists and engineers should continue this trend.
But in my unscientific opinion, in the long term, we can never really save our planet, ourselves, or any other species we might kill with our destructive behavior, until we control our own burgeoning population. It seems logical that as the number of humans on the planet multiplies, so will our demand for, use of, and waste from, the natural resources required to feed, clothe and transport us. No matter what other measures we take to reduce pollution and conserve natural resources, overpopulation of the earth will overwhelm those efforts.
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