The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

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.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

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.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.