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Richard Leakey: 'Population size is something we've got to address' (Eric Berger, 11/04/10, Houston Chronicle

Conservationist and paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey recently visited Houston to speak at the Progressive Forum, and I had a chance to interview him as part of the visit.

Al Gore's film had a policy objective at the end, capping carbon dioxide emissions. If you were to do a similar film for conservation efforts, what would your policy objective be?

It's hard to say because the film isn't written, but waste is an important aspect people can address, wasting of resources. I think also smaller families to address population. I think population size is something we've got to address and I think people have got to be persuaded this is a serious issue. I know this is long-term but people somehow have got to be made to realize - and I doubt I can do it but I've got to take a shot at it - that this really is a crisis.

Too bad Leni's dead.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 4, 2010 3:51 PM