Apart from the ups and downs of the political economic situation, Schmidt especially stressed the pessimistic outlook for the environment, raising the problem of population growth and limited resources adding to the worsening of the greenhouse effect and leading to unlimited tides of human migration.
分析世界政經情勢的消長外，他特別強調環境生態的悲觀未來。他提出下一世紀人口與糧食的憂慮，加上溫室效應的惡化，將造成世界無可阻攔的移民潮。