Knowledge Is The Key To Making A

It Is Not Too Late To Turn Things Around.

People I Know Who Succeed Don't Mind Working. Those Who Are Competent Seem To Like Doing Things Well -- Not Stopping Because They Haven't Accomplished What They Wanted To On The First Go-round. They're Willing To Do It Twenty Times, If Necessary. There's An Illusion That The Good People Can Easily Do Something, And It's Not Necessarily True. They're Just Determined To Do It Right. I Was Impressed By Hearing One Of The Women At Radcliffe Talk About Writing A Poem, How Many Revisions A Single Poem Sometimes Has To Go Through -- Fifty Or Sixty Revisions To Come Out With A Poem Sixteen Lines Long.

Our Insatiable Appetite For Fossil Fuels And The Corporate Mandate To Maximize Shareholder Value Encourages Drilling Without Taking Into Account The Costs To The Ocean, Even Without Major Spills.

Fortunately, We Know More About The Problems That We Have Than In All Preceding History. We Know Now The Consequences Of The Things That We Put Into The Air, Into The Water - Of The Way We Treat Life On Earth.

We've Got To Alter Our Fossil Fuel Dependence And Go To Other Energy Sources.