assistant bailey on that one. i don't always win. you see these quotes and predictions, and then i hear the predictions about global warming today, they're not true either, but a lot of people believe them. what do we do? >> hiyperbole doesn't always work. there's no question that our air is cleaner, our water is cleaner. we take care of our wetlands, our oceans, our beaches. there's been some benefit to the alarmism that happened early on, but now we know so much more and we cooperate so much better that america has a lot to be proud of. >> civilization hasn't gone away. people are not starving to death. there's always people that are poor. we've had those problems throughout many centuries of