The Modern Assault On The Environment Began

The Gap Between Brute Power And Human Need Continues To Grow, As The Power Fattens On The Same Faulty Technology That Intensifies The Need.

The Most Meaningful Engine Of Change, Powerful Enough To Confront Corporate Power, May Be Not So Much Environmental Quality, As The Economic Development And Growth Associated With The Effort To Improve It.

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.

My Entry Into The Environmental Arena Was Through The Issue That So Dramatically - And Destructively - Demonstrates The Link Between Science And Social Action: Nuclear Weapons.

The Environmental Crisis Is A Sign That The Ecosphere Is Now So Heavily Strained That Its Continued Stability Is Threatened. It Is A Warning That We Must Discover The Source Of This Suicidal Drive And Master It Before It Destroys The Environment-and Ourselves.