What is "The Truth About Everything" about?

Well, I've mentioned everything except what "The Truth About Everything" is really all about, so here goes:

Our species faces unprecedented problems of climate change, population growth, peak oil and related issues, and it will take an unprecedented advance in our collective thinking and actions to meet these problems.

If we keep doing what we're doing indefinitely, we won't be around indefinitely.

It's like we're blowing up a balloon of population, consumption and pollution growth, and this balloon cannot be blown up indefinitely on a finite planet with finite resources.

Due to climate change, species die-off and migration, rising sea levels and the collapse of agriculture, our children or grandchildren, or at the very longest their grandchildren, might live on a planet that would be unrecognizable to us.

And the population of people and other species might be a tiny fraction of what they are today.

People have heard doomsday predictions before and most of them haven't come true. They were hearing many of those predicitons when there were a third or a tenth or a twentieth as many people on earth as there are now, and with the average person consuming and polluting infinitely less than the average person does now.

Just because a prediction like those of Paul and Anne Ehrich (authors of "The Population Bomb" in 1968 and the completely on-track "Population Explosion" in 1990) don't come true in 20 years doesn't mean they aren't coming true in 50 or 70 or 90.

Just because we've dodged the nuclear bullet for 62 years doesn't mean that we'll be able to dodge it for another 62.

Agricultural productivity might well collapse due to peak oil (the Green Revolution has been base on cheap oil for fertilizers, pesticides, operating farm machinery and shipping food), the loss of topsoil and freshwater, and other factors like rising sea levels.

The more educated someone is and the more they've studied these issues, the more they see this coming. The vast, vast majority of us do not.

What I am trying to do is to take the conversations extremely concerned scientists and experts have among themselves and share that with the general public.

While what Al Gore has done is wonderful and important, you can't discuss climate change in a vacuum. Maybe because you can't have a climate in a vacuum. He mentions population but not peak oil, but all three and other issues are completely intertwined. For instance, if we can't get the oil and gas we're used to using, do we burn more coal? If we do, that will accelerate global warming and all its catastrophic effects.

What we know and can see scares scientists to death. But they know that it is what we don't yet know and can't yet see that could mean the death of us all.

This is a difficult issue to discuss, so I applaud and respect your reading this, and hopefully your desire to discuss it.

Take all of our political, economic, social, family and sports concerns, add them all up, and they are not as important as the issues we're discussing here.

That is what "The Truth About Everything" is about. Thank you for joining me and I look forward to hearing from you.