Richard Lindzen

Wilson?

Have you ever heard that name?

I have heard it, but I don't know where.

He was a biologist at Harvard.

He wrote about sociobiology.

His specialty were ants and bees and things, social insects.

And he was giving a talk, and...

It came up for reasons that were not obvious to me.

He was talking about the population of humanoids.

And he was mentioning that you go back a few hundred thousand years and you began the first humanoids and they got to about a few million.

But then during the last glacial maximum,

The numbers went down to tens of thousands.

There was a complete wipeout of humans.

So I asked him afterwards, I said, do you think this could have anything to do with the fact that CO2 is so low that there was no food?

And his response was to turn around and walk away.

Yeah, I know.

And it should be the first thing that makes you suspicious.

But there's something else about it which I find funny and you might have some insight into it.

People pay no attention to the actual numbers.

We're not talking about big changes.