Consequently, the conclusions and recommendations based in them are wrong as well as wrongheaded. It is an advocacy document for tyranny. Its irritating that taxpayers were forced to pay for its development and publication. Our challenges are little different from those of our ancestors. Thanks to the inventiveness of free minds and the efficiency of free markets, the ability of the Earth to support us is limited only by the life of the Sun.
Earth is bathed in energy from the Sun and new matter from space.
Since antiquity we have converted energy and matter to useful forms. Change is inevitable and necessary for the sake of future generations and for ourselves. The United Stated made great progress in protecting the environment in the last 25 years, and must continue to make progress in the next 25 years. Government is the worst abuser of the environment. In fact most regulations have been environmentally counter-productive.