The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

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.

Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

No action is without its side effects.