text: The Ehrlichs favor junking the EPA in favor of a Federal Environmental Authority modeled after the political independence and power of the Federal Reserveprecisely because the Fed is "insulated from day-to-day politics." In other words, the Ehrlichs make clear that they understand that their agenda of governmentally imposed "constraint" (their term) would not succeed in a genuine democracy. The Limits to Growth team is a little more realistic that "a world of strict, centralized government control" of the environment is not possible, but they still indulge in some wishful thinking about how the world should be changed: