Nothing Ever Dies, Nothing Ever Goes Away.

Air Pollution Is Not Merely A Nuisance And A Threat To Health. It Is A Reminder That Our Most Celebrated Technological Achievements-the Automobile, The Jet Plane, The Power Plant, Industry In General, And Indeed The Modern City Itself-are, In The Environment, Failures.

Earth Day 1970 Was Irrefutable Evidence That The American People Understood The Environmental Threat And Wanted Action To Resolve It.

Because The Global Ecosystem Is A Connected Whole, In Which Nothing Can Be Gained Or Lost And Which Is Not Subject To Over-all Improvement, Anything Extracted From It By Human Effort Must Be Replaced. Payment Of This Price Cannot Be Avoided; It Can Only Be Delayed. The Present Environmental Crisis Is A Warning That We Have Delayed Nearly Too Long.

Perhaps One Of The Most Meaningful Ways To Sense The Impact Of The Environmental Crisis Is To Confront The Question Which Is Always Asked About Lake Erie: How Can We Restore It? I Believe The Only Valid Answer Is That No One Knows. For It Should Be Clear That Even If Overnight All Of The Pollutants Now Pouring Into Lake Erie Were Stopped, There Would Still Remain The Problem Of The Accumulated Mass Of Pollutants In The Lake Bottom.

When You Fully Understand The Situation, It Is Worse Than You Think.