Question: I just want to ask the panelists what is their opinion about how much the government or politicians are important in solving the environmental problems?

Question: I think in order to make a compelling argument, you need to put this in economic terms. Doctor Wilson, you made reference to a monetary return that biodiversity will give to people. Can you elaborate on that number and how you arrived at it?

Question: I guess the question I have is, if we think biologically about this, what are the assembly rules for a global economy that can sort of help us move through this? I noticed your reticence to tackle the political issue, so let's not tackle it in terms of republicans or democrats, but I really would appreciate your thoughts on how we can begin to move forward to assemble, evolve, and co-evolve kind of a global way of thinking collectively about how to solve this. Clearly, you're doing that, but I'd love to know more about that.

Question: It sounds like the root of all evil is over-population, and I'm just wondering if any of you are optimistic that human over-population is going to start turning the corner after 2050.

Question: My question is more that it's easy to come to something like this and get really hyped up and be like "Oh my God, we're going to Hell in a hand-basket!" But then the next day and the next day and the next day come, and you start to forget again. I'm wondering which groups you think are doing the most important work and which groups to keep coming back to, to focus on, to keep people focused. Which groups do you all respect the most?

Question: I, too, would like to say I'm really inspired by your comments, and I have a very related question. The science is compelling, it seems very clear, and the public perception isn't there. So there is a huge gap, from what I'm hearing from all of you, and yet when I talk to other people outside, there's not that awareness. So I wonder to what extent is it your responsibility to get that awareness out, and if not your responsibility, whose responsibility, and then what methods might be most effective, because clearly the methods I hear now are based on peer-reviewed papers and other things, and I'm not sure General Motors would use that strategy to get its ideas out.

Question: I had the chance of hearing Sylvia Earle, who was the former Chief Scientist of NOAA (the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration), last weekend and she described eating wild fish as eating songbirds. She was equating wild fish to wild life, and I was curious, have you given up eating wild fish, Dr. Jackson?