Environmental Quality Was Drastically Improved While Economic

Perhaps The Simplest Example Is A Synthetic Plastic, Which Unlike Natural Materials, Is Not Degraded By Biological Decay. It Therefore Persists As Rubbish Or Is Burned-in Both Cases Causing Pollution. In The Same Way, A Substance Such As Ddt Or Lead, Which Plays No Role In The Chemistry Of Life And Interferes With The Actions Of Substances That Do, Is Bound To Cause Ecological Damage If Sufficiently Concentrated.

We Are In An Environmental Crisis Which Threatens The Survival Of This Nation, And Of The World As A Suitable Place Of Human Habitation.

What Is New Is That Environmentalism Intensely Illuminates The Need To Confront The Corporate Domain At Its Most Powerful And Guarded Point - The Exclusive Right To Govern The Systems Of Production.

By Adopting The Control Strategy, The Nation's Environmental Program Has Created A Built-in Antagonism Between Environmental Quality And Economic Growth.

The Environmental Crisis Is Somber Evidence Of An Insidious Fraud Hidden In The Vaunted Productivity And Wealth Of Modern, Technology-based Society. This Wealth Has Been Gained By Rapid Short-term Exploitation Of The Environmental System, But It Has Blindly Accumulated A Debt To Nature-a Debt So Large And So Pervasive That In The Next Generation It May, If Unpaid, Wipe Out Most Of The Wealth It Has Gained Us.