Dave Finnigan's Page

Hometown:

Celebration FL

About Me:

Worked from 1967-1976 in Family Planning programs in Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Nepal

My Ideal Foreign Policy:

Starts with understanding the culture of other nations. We should strengthen and work through the United Nations, still the last best hope of mankind. That being said, in spite of cultural imperatives for large family size in countries like the Philippines, the entire world must change in several ways: Reduce fertility to replacement level; get off fossil fuels; retool for a solar, wind and tide powered future; learn to eat locally grown foods; encourage public transportation. All our public policies should promote a rational and scientific approach to the future. We should neither promote "magical thinking" about the path to democracy (as we have in the middle east) nor should we permit multinational corporations to dominate international decisions.

Website:

http://www.climatechangeiselementary.blogspot.com/

2nd Website:

http://www.theclimateproject.org/

My Interests:

Reducing fertility worldwide to the replacement level by 2050.
Getting the world off of carbon based fuels without falling into the nuclear abyss.

Books I Recommend:

The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich, Small is Beautiful by EF Schumacher

My Favorite Music:

Imagine by John Lennon says it all