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Well, the area I know best is urban and hard to defend—it would be terrible in a zombie apocalypse.

If there's a zombie apocalypse, I am booking the last flight to Hawaii. Good weather, can be self-sufficient—thousands of miles away from mainland zombie hordes. I'll just make sure to pitch my tent high enough on the slopes that I can survive the rising sea levels.

Well, there's growth, but it's mostly—in China—the result of longer lives. In the U.S., it's driven by immigration.

Eh, do you want, but I'll just point out that it's not about liking children, it's about liking your child who will be an individual and won't even stay a child all that long. The not-liking children thing just doesn't mean that much—my kid's friends tend to irritate me, but I adore her. It helps that we're a fair…

I'm not quite that pessimistic—the global birth rate peaked in 2004 and population growth is declining. A lot of what we're dealing with now is the result of living longer worldwide.

Yeah, I lived through the strict water rationing of the 1977 drought, but this is worse because it's been going on for years.

Well, the biggest chunk of fresh water in the U.S. is the Great Lakes. You also get a lot piling up in the mountains—well, did—I'm in California and it's pretty dry right now.

Thing is, "Climb Every Mountain" is great if it's a live performance. It was written for an operatic mezzo, so you're nodding away through Maria's perkiness and the chirping children and then you get this big, grand voice powering its way through "Climb Every Mountain"—and, wham, you wake right up.

What movement, sweetie? I don't belong to a movement. I'm simply informed and capable of critical thinking.

I think something like 80 percent of the world's population lives at sea level (I'm just pulling the number out of my head, so this could be dead wrong). Certainly in the U.S. the bulk of the population lives on the coast. My home is certainly under water in the pictures.

The money made off of alternative energies is minuscule compared to the money made by the companies invested in the status quo. Of the world's 10 largest companies (by revenue), six are gas and oil companies—the only non-petro company in the top five is WalMart, which also has no vested interest in reducing…

There weren't a ton of people getting rich off of global freezing. It was a flurry of articles, but there was no global freeze business and people didn't take it seriously—it was really a way to discuss science—back when conservatives believed in science because it was going to give us our edge over the Soviets.

No. Sorry, but as a relic of the '70s, the whole earth chilling thing wasn't about it actually happening, but the pop-culture reaction to the scientific studies that showed that ice ages could come on rapidly—50 years instead of thousands of years—that the transformation wasn't gradual.

I think drowning's the least of it—there are plenty of ways to get to higher ground, but when you look at the sheer number of cities that will be flooded, you're looking at a huge destabilization. We'll die and suffer in other ways.

But is she? I've been looking up various financials of vegan food companies and I see no signs that VBites is the world's largest vegan company. Not even sure how you'd qualify something like that—I mean there are gigantic agricultural concerns whose products are vegan, but don't call themselves vegan food companies.

Shakespeare will be, but I might not. I'm an adult, my time and what I choose to read are for me—not about being restricted in my choices because of someone else's notion of what is politically correct. The fact that the western canon has had a strong white male bias since forever doesn't mean doing the reverse and…

I think Elsa was the more interesting character, but the narrative focus was on Anna and her quest—we saw more of her point-of-view. Which is why Disney made a bunch of Anna dolls and ran out of Elsas. Frozen probably should have focused on Elsa, but I think she was the second lead.

Yeah, I'm not saying that it's guaranteed to be good, just that it's not an inherently terrible idea.

I don't actually think this a terrible idea. Frozen ended up with a happily-ever-after for Anna, but Elsa's storyline has a lot of places it could go—running the kingdom, continuing to deal with powers, figuring out a love life, etc. Her story actually felt unfinished and she was an interesting enough character that…