This speech is a pleasant surprise, coming from one of the best-selling writers today. Surprising to see someone so popular take on the sacred cow of enviromentalism and to say so many thoughtful things, such as:
"Every one of us has a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us by what other people and society tell us; in part generated by our emotional state, which we project outward; and in part by our genuine perceptions of reality. In short, our struggle to determine what is true is the struggle to decide which of our perceptions are genuine, and which are false because they are handed down, or sold to us, or generated by our own hopes and fears. "
