Douglas was one of three journalists participating in a panel discussion, “Covering Climate: What’s Population Got to Do With It,” which was held at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. The other two panelists were Dennis Dimick, executive editor of National Geographic, and Andrew Revkin, environmental reporter for The New York Times (who participated via Web camera).
An audience member who identified herself as an employee of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the federal agency that distributes foreign aid, asked the speakers: “Do either one of you have any idea what it’s going to take to reverse our culture of consumerism here in the United States?”
Douglas immediately replied: “Make the recession worse.”
The nut-jobs who used to keep their ideas and plans secret are encouraged by the Obama administration to come out of the closet.
Note the prominent participation of National Geographic. A new generation is managing the this magazine since the days when it mainly featured naked African natives in all their glory.
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