This is Daniel Quinn, not the actor, the environmentalist.  Mr. Quinn was born in Omaha, Nebraska during 1935 and is still live and kicking at the age of 74.  He attended St. Louis University, University of Vienna and Loyola University.  He graduated with a bachelors in English.  It wasn't until 33 years later that his career really kicked off.  He wrote a total of 14 books of different genres.

 The follow bullets are listening the year his books came out and the titles.

• 1988- Dreamer
• 1992- Ishmael
• 1996- The Story of B
• 1996- Providence: The Story of a 50 Year Vision Quest
• 1997- My Ishmael
• 1997- A Newcomer's Guide to the After Life
• 1999- An Animist Testament
• 2000- Beyond Civilization
• 2001- After Dachau
• 2002- The Holy
• 2005- Tales of Adam
• 2006- Work, Work, Work
• 2007- If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways

..."Nobody's out to save the world, because nobody gives a damn about the world, that was just a bunch of goofy kids talking.  Get a job, make some money, work till you're sixty, then move to Florida and die." -Ishmael.  

This first quote just shows how he doesn't believe the youth of our planet care about the future of it and don't care what happens to it.  I think it shows a lot of what's wrong about his philosophy.  The youth is who we should all be after.  When were too old to care for ourselves they will be the ones caring for us.  What he says about making money then going to florida is 100% our elders fault.  Younger people look up to older people for advice and help.  If elders went up north then Mr. Quinn would've written "...then move to New York and die."  It's all about the examples you set.  I think that's the key to making his philosophy work.  He must target the youth if he ever wants to actually change things and get rid of food aid in other countries.  It's a long process which cannot be done over night so aim for the people who will be around the longest; our youth.

Key environmental issues which concerns Mr. Quinn is food consumption verses the human population.  He does not think food aid will help the more needy countries.  He actually believes that it will increase the human population.  The less food consumed, the lower number of humans.  He worries about the over population of humans and that negatively effecting our food sources and the other living things on this planet.  Slowly animals are becoming closer to extinction such as polar bears and whales.

I think his philosophy on food consumption relating to human population is very true and believable but I don't think by eating less it's going to prevent our population from growing.  People in the U.S. eat just about anything as long as it takes good.  If Mcdonalds came out with a burger drink and it was made of grease and artifical flavoring as long as it tasted like a burger people would purchase it and it'd become the new whopper.  I do agree that because of our population growing so drastically we will cause many more animals to become extinct and our food supply will decrease.  We are going to be in a very tough situation but I think it is so far down the road that by the time it becomes a world wide problem we'll be so far advanced that it won't effect us because there will be an alternate.  A way to use his philosophy to an issue we are currently facing is to provide more awareness to the country.  For example, a few years ago on MTV they started this whole campain called truth and tobacco companies and the stats behind it that now most teens know exactly what truth is and could give you some examples.  If the youth were more educated on problems which will effect them when they're older.  When we die they'll be the ones in control of our worlds fate.  These ideas need to retire being ideas and become actions.  The things which a common natural resources for us now and slowly going to dcrease and soon we're going to be in a major dilema unless we start taking action now.  I think there's another way besides not giving food aid to less fortunate countries and we need to figure out alternatives.